so for all we know MH's accuracy may be nothing more than just a measure of how well that citizen-education program worked -- water to fish granted that's an empirically tractable question and it's hard-to-impossible to get good data on so ultimately who knows
There's a tendency to a sort of philosopher equivalent of constitutional originalism. Where the "original" version of an idea becomes sacred for no good reason. You see the same thing in the east with the Vedas or Confucius etc.
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yep, exactly, and more fully articulated than my vague gesture at "great man theory" too the "great" individual is a fruiting body of an organism that's mostly invisible, it's too easy to forget the health of the invisible mass is critical to whether any ever come up at all
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like how trees that look like a group of discrete individuals are actually all growths of a single organism but you can't see that from a strictly above-ground pov bc the connections between them are all in the root system that fact does a *lot* of valuable metaphorical work imo
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