Quote:
Originally Posted by Belfaborac
There has never been such a thing as wholly self-directed advancement though, or even anything close to it; not since we swung down from the trees and became human beings. Change and advancement is almost always something we're pushed into, for the simple reason that people outside our countries are just as clever and smart as we are and there's a hell of a lot more of them. Hence most inventions, improvements and whatnot will always originate elsewhere.
|
That sounds a lot like saying "since there are more of everyone else then there are of any one person, no one person matters." I reject that wholeheartedly. It reminds me of Douglas Adams's saying in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, that the population of the Universe is zero, because if you divide an finite number of inhabitants by the infinite space of the Universe, the result is close enough to zero as not to matter.