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Time Magazine: Man of the Millennium

Joe Cosby joecosby at lytvat.seatac.net
Tue Sep 22 21:48:17 EST 1998


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On 22 Sep 1998 22:39:53 +0200, Ketil Z Malde wrote about Re: Time Magazine: Man of the Millennium:
> smwei at umich.edu (Silke-Maria Weineck) writes:
> 
> > Maynard Handley (handleym at ricochet.net) wrote:
> 
> > : Jesus
> 
> Jesus would of course qualify as Man of the Previous Millenium
> 
> > : I said that the big things that changed everyone's lives over the last one
> > : thousand years were for the most part caused by white European (and in the
> > : last 1/4 of those thousand years North American) males. 
> 
> > your parenthesis, however, strikes me as the funniest things I've read
> > in this thread. 
> 
> I think he means that in the last 250 years, North American males have
> also been very influential, in addition to the European ones, not that
> only North Americans have been.
> 
> However, a millenium is a mighty long time, and I'd like to point out
> that the Chinese invented stuff like paper, printing, compasses,
> firearms, and of course a bunch of philosophies...unfortunately, they
> don't seem to have retained the names of inventors (with the exception
> of the philosophies), and a lot of that may have been in previous
> millennia.  No match for Jesus. :-)
> 
> And keep in mind that, even if for us white males it looks like most
> important stuff were done by white European males, some people might
> think that Lao-Tze were more important than Shakespeare, or that Haile
> Selassie were greater leader than Napoleon.  If it gets down to voting,
> the fraction of white European votes isn't all that large, either.
> 
> Oh, well, the whole thing is a bit silly, I suppose.  And off topic.
> 
> ~kzm
> -- 
> If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants

I would tend to vote for Lao-Tze, but he wasn't in this millenium...
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