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who do you think from history has had the biggest impact on the way we live our lives today?
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"Probably Jesus for better or worse or maybe Malcolm X or De Beauvoir in modern times? What do you think, OP? "
why Malcolm x more than Martin Luther King?
Personally I'm really not sure , but you do have to massively admire people who stick up for what they believe in when they realise doing so will cause a lot of tension. |
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Developers of various political systems
Those pushing for universal franchise, or education.
The development of the printing press
Those who made huge discoveries in medicine that allow us to live much more carefree lives
Ditto industrial farming and ready supply of food |
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People like the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and other union (as they became known) activists.
So many of the rights we have in work, (and out of work) come from the real danger many of these people put themselves in.
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"Probably Jesus for better or worse or maybe Malcolm X or De Beauvoir in modern times? What do you think, OP? why Malcolm x more than Martin Luther King?
Personally I'm really not sure , but you do have to massively admire people who stick up for what they believe in when they realise doing so will cause a lot of tension."
True, I think you’re right in saying MLK probably impacted more people than Malcolm. That’s an oversight on my part.
Another possible answer could be Kant? I think him or maybe Marx have had huge social/political/ cultural impacts. |
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"People like the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and other union (as they became known) activists.
So many of the rights we have in work, (and out of work) come from the real danger many of these people put themselves in.
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I'll have to Google the tolpuddle martyrs I'm ashamed to admit. |
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"Probably Jesus for better or worse or maybe Malcolm X or De Beauvoir in modern times? What do you think, OP? why Malcolm x more than Martin Luther King?
Personally I'm really not sure , but you do have to massively admire people who stick up for what they believe in when they realise doing so will cause a lot of tension.
True, I think you’re right in saying MLK probably impacted more people than Malcolm. That’s an oversight on my part.
Another possible answer could be Kant? I think him or maybe Marx have had huge social/political/ cultural impacts. "
Oh I wasn't saying either was more impacting than the other, even though I guess king was. just interested why you chose him specifically.still fascinating how they were fighting the same fight in different ways.
I'm just trying to expand my mind a little , and enjoying seeing people's opinions |
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Julius Robert Oppenheimer.
'now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds'
Without his contribution there would have been more wars and millions more lost. |
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Benjamin Franklin. Every single one of us is benefitting from his discovery. I’m not saying he’s the greatest, but a lot of the things mentioned above wouldn’t have happened. |
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"Probably Jesus for better or worse or maybe Malcolm X or De Beauvoir in modern times? What do you think, OP? why Malcolm x more than Martin Luther King?
Personally I'm really not sure , but you do have to massively admire people who stick up for what they believe in when they realise doing so will cause a lot of tension.
True, I think you’re right in saying MLK probably impacted more people than Malcolm. That’s an oversight on my part.
Another possible answer could be Kant? I think him or maybe Marx have had huge social/political/ cultural impacts.
Oh I wasn't saying either was more impacting than the other, even though I guess king was. just interested why you chose him specifically.still fascinating how they were fighting the same fight in different ways.
I'm just trying to expand my mind a little , and enjoying seeing people's opinions"
I probably went with Malcolm because I think even King realised towards the end that Malcolm wasn’t the devil he was made out to be at the time.
But yes seeing different opinions on this is super interesting. Thanks for the thread, OP  |
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"Hitler
Great guy
You could turn this into "how does society react to a crisis, do we learn lessons, what are the pitfalls of this?""
Maybe not the same but didn’t Milgram’s experiment use Hitler or maybe more so the nazis as a way of learning?
Also, weird seeing this because I was watching something on Foucault that was talking about his views on history which are similar to what you’re saying.
Link: https://youtu.be/BBJTeNTZtGU
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Sir Frank whittle the inventor of the jet engine,he and sir Tim Berners-Lee who inventor of the world wide web.
Both of these men didn't patent there Inventions because they new how important they were going to be for mankind |
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Steve Jobs ( CEO APPLE1997-2011) he revolutionised computers and the range of products from iPod to iPad and iPhone, this stimulated market growth in music sales, tablet computing and smartphone market, of which many of us are utilising for our viewing of sexy profiles and arranging all sorts of naughty deeds. Thank you Steve Jobs for helping me get my end away.  |
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"I honestly believe that the names of those who have made the greatest contributions will never be known. "
Like the inventor of the wheel, they really got things moving. |
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"I honestly believe that the names of those who have made the greatest contributions will never be known.
Like the inventor of the wheel, they really got things moving."
 Bread, glass, crop management, shipboard navigation etc etc |
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I would say Henry T Ford, who, through mass production, changed the way we work, where we could work, the distances between our familial support networks, the very atmosphere we breathe, the economic importance of oil, and the scale of war.
The humble motor car, once mass produced, and available to all, changed where we live, the very landscape we live in and the need for a resource we, until that point, had no desire for. |
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"I honestly believe that the names of those who have made the greatest contributions will never be known.
Like the inventor of the wheel, they really got things moving.
Bread, glass, crop management, shipboard navigation etc etc"
Not to mention the woman who got tired of having chapped nipples from breast feeding and tied a jenny goat to a tree and stated playing with her udder. Not to mention the guy who got up one morning and said ' I wonder what those oblong shaped things that came out of that hen's butt taste like ?' |
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Malcolm McLean.
Who? He dreamed up the shipping container. Before we used to load and unload boats by hand using stevedores. Now it’s a lot quicker and has helped massively towards globalisation. Whether that is a good or bad thing is another debate. |
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The Emperor Constantine.
He basically put Christianity on the map and like it or not, over the last 2000 years that has had more impact on the world than anything else.
Whether that be creating culture, encouraging exploration, guiding (and sometimes dictating) how we spend our every day lives and the way people interact. Without that bringing a major part (obviously not all) of the world together under one banner then I believe many of the things we take for granted to day would never have been achieved.
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"Just curious who's beliefs and wisdom or maybe lack of, has inspired people or changed their own way of thinking. Maybe I'm spending too long in home schooling hell lol"
The industrial revolution generally and invention of the steam engines particularly. The manufacture of metal changed everything on a fundamental scale never seen before or since.
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Emily Pankhurst paving the way for fuure women in giving us the right to vote.
From a development discourse Piaget and Vygotsky's theories underpin the modern curriculum used in
Schools.
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Wouldn't be anywhere without electricity and the guys below who discovered much of the basis for what we use today
Alexander Graham Bell
George Westinghouse
Werner von Siemens
Reginald Fessenden
Otto Blathy
Galileo Ferraris
Thomas Edison
Joseph Swan
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"I'd say the romans or faradays invention of the electric motor
'What have the Romans ever done for us?'  "
That's actually an interesting question  History shows that they may have destroyed more than they ever created - Carthage, the British Druid hierarchy etc
Most of their innovations were stolen from other cultures that they assimilated. |
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"I'd say the romans or faradays invention of the electric motor
'What have the Romans ever done for us?'
That's actually an interesting question History shows that they may have destroyed more than they ever created - Carthage, the British Druid hierarchy etc
Most of their innovations were stolen from other cultures that they assimilated. "
Resistance is futile or was that the Borg's. |
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"Much of the way we live and accept as our rights, were established by Cromwell. "
He had quite the impact over here too. Unfortunately he wasn't that considerate about our ancestors' rights or their right to live.
His actions also seriously impacted on British tabloid sales, and put untold paparazzi and royal correspondents out of business for 11 years. |
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"People like the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and other union (as they became known) activists.
So many of the rights we have in work, (and out of work) come from the real danger many of these people put themselves in.
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Marx? |
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"The internet. Think how screwed many of us would be without it right now...and not in a fun way!"
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Although ...
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had a major impact on modern times also |
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"I'd say the romans or faradays invention of the electric motor
'What have the Romans ever done for us?'
That's actually an interesting question History shows that they may have destroyed more than they ever created - Carthage, the British Druid hierarchy etc
Most of their innovations were stolen from other cultures that they assimilated. "
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There's so many different people throughout history whose actions or inventions have completely changed the way we all live. In fairly modern history I would say J. Robert Oppenheimer, credited as the father of the atom bomb (among other leading scientists of the time). The devastating weapon which ended WW2 let the genie out of the bottle and has caused much fear and sabre rattling over the last half century, but has also kept the peace and all but put an end to countries launching wars of conquest through fear of mutually assured destruction. |
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Magna Carta. 800 years on and it forms the basis of political structure, laws and constitution in the UK, and other countries, to this day. Pretty damn important really.
Oh, and the bloke who invented the wheel. |
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"..has also kept the peace and all but put an end to countries launching wars of conquest through fear of mutually assured destruction. "
Only for those countries with nuclear arms. Everyone else seems fair game!
Lots of great names in here. Turing, the invention of the printing press, Jenner.. fucking Rupert Murdoch.
Kind of hard to put a finger on it as I'm sure time and place comes into it. Like, things falling into place when they need to.
For the age we're living in right now, I'd have to go with whoever has had a major influence on modern computing and the internet - Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, Tim Berners Lee, etc. |
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"I'd say the romans or faradays invention of the electric motor
'What have the Romans ever done for us?'
That's actually an interesting question History shows that they may have destroyed more than they ever created - Carthage, the British Druid hierarchy etc
Most of their innovations were stolen from other cultures that they assimilated.
Resistance is futile or was that the Borg's."
That was The Borg But the writers got the inspiration for the Borg from the Roman culture like they did with other alien species. The Klingons were based on Vikings, and remember the Ferengi from DS9? "Ferenghi" is the old Farsi (Persian) word for "foreigners" or "aliens" who traded with them. |
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In human history.........The realisation of agriculture, this is the birth place for home, domesticating animals and industrialising food, products, money & tax, cities, all of our infrastructure and of course, for the rare few not the rich 1% but the innovators, scholars, honed trades like stone & metal work, explorers, science as we know it & maths. It allowing for "spare" time to think about the universe in a deeper state.
However, staying in one place and not following food by season and migrations, allows for famine even now.
We can see now in this Covid state of global events that capitalism industry eats most of the world's oil, energy and creates the most destruction by pollution in every area.
This is the next step in out historic evolutionary journey, choose wisely. |
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Oil, car and airline industry..
Irrecoverable damage yo our planet all in the name of greed.
Options to reduce fossil fuel were availalable when I was at school. They have spent years lying, lobbying while lining thier pockets at the expense of humanity's future itself.
Anyone speaking against them were labelled Green Fanatic Tree Huggers.
Donald Trump is of the same generation. |
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Each and every person from history is important to how we live our lives today. Although some may take their inspiration from great inventors and scholars, those people may take their inspiration from their parents, siblings and lovers.
Don't tell me for example that Adolf Hitler's Mum didn't influence how he turned out (probably not a very nice woman tbh).
Didn't Albert Einstein have a cat that helped with some of the greatest discoveries of all time?
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