• kersplooshA
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    1492 months ago

    Beware the myth of the self-made man.

    • @[email protected]
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      772 months ago

      Yep! Few things are as dangerous as following someone who doesn’t understand that they got lucky.

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        262 months ago

        But the entire society is conditioned to do it.

        We are shown celebrities before we learn to speak. All around us are those recognizable idiots who rarely have benefited humanity in any meaningful way but have very, very marketable faces. All to make us poor pay for their luxuries.

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      122 months ago

      "If you wish to make an apple pie a man from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ~Carl Sagan