Posted: 5/26/2007 5:43:07 PM EDT
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Which theory of history do you believe in? Myself, I'm a believer in the Great Man Theory, that there are indispensible indivduals, without whom history would have taken a far different path. |
Churchill, Hitler, Stalin and Roosevelt come immediately to mind. (Though I suppose one can always argue that history made the men.) |
Hitler is the penultimate Great Man. A Bavarian corporal becomes der Fuhrer and plunges the world into a war which alters the course of mankinds history. |
I'm of the opinion that the Nazis or something like them would have risen to power with or without Hitler. This is one instance where I believe that "historical trend" trumps "great individual". |
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Our own Republic could not have been won (both the war and the negotiated settlement phase) without a Geo. Washington. In the Catholic Church John Paul the Great totally changed the course of history; both secular and ecclesial. His 'rock star' status outflanked the leftist/BS progressive/Lib-theologian/Ameri-Church wouldbe schismatics in the 1980's and 1990s...giving us enough time (like a generation) to get enough good men in enough places of power to hold the center. The story of history is one of prophets, kings, and priests; good dads, good husbands, good sons saving the day. |
Hitler is the second to last Great Man?  I don't think penultimate means what you think it means. |
brainfart. 
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