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Maybe because those are examples of people that didn't have any significant work that can be admired? We remember the works of Euclid, Plato, Socrates, Newton,
by miltondts 5y ago
Maybe because those are examples of people that didn't have any significant work that can be admired?
We remember the works of Euclid, Plato, Socrates, Newton, Shakespeare, the Wright Brothers, Einstein etc.
I imagine none of these people spared much thought as to whether they were mediocre or would be remembered. They just did what they felt compelled to do.
- klyrs 5y agoSlight nitpick, we don't have recorded works of Socrates. We have notes that his students took. He was rather famously against writing.
- tjs8rj 5y agoYou can name 10 people of the 100 billion who have lived? Even 20,000 notable people from today and history would be 0.00002% of the humans who have lived, or 1 in 50,000. Most of them are unknown to the vast majority of humans - hardly famous in any colloquial sense.