Friday, September 30, 2022
MOST CONSEQUENTAL PERSON OF THE LAST CENTURY
Owing to my rejuvenated fascination with Winston Churchill I have been Googling around trying to determine who is considered the greatest person of the 20th century. My answer, of course, is Churchill. Other contenders seem to be Nelson Mandela, Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, and Martin Luther King. To that list I would add Mother Teresa. Obviously, some of you have other persons in mind; I would be interested to learn who they are. But, for me, Churchill, with all his faults, is the clear winner.
However, greatest person as I view it implies someone who somehow benefitted humanity. There is another category, most consequential person, concerning persons who most influenced the course of history. In that completion the little weasel pictured above has no rival, although Stalin and Mao Tse Tung both come close. Have I left somebody out?
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To the latter list I probably should add Kaiser Wilhelm II, Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.
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