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The more I think about it, the more bizarre it seems to me that we narrativize history in terms of the hero-washed exceptions rather than the unwashed mediocrities. I think this is because history has roots in myth-making, which has entirely different motives and methods.
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Of course, by definition. The definition of reproductive success for an exceptional trait is that it becomes ubiquitously distributed and therefore mostly mediocre by definition. The human gene pool is 10% ersatz genghis khan for example.