> and humans are such narcissists that they assume those babblings refer to them, the parents :)
Or mama, papa, appa, amma, etc are the easiest words for infants/toddlers to pronounce and hence we used these word for children to call attention to the two most important people for their survival?
Is it narcissism or the fact that infants/toddlers cannot even pronounce most vowels/consonants other than a, m, b/p?
> But for nearly every invention and idea, history shows that multiple people were working on it at the same time.
Not just "people" - "geniuses". History shows multiple geniuses were working on it at the same time.
I do agree that we give too much credit to a single genius. Had Isaac Newton not lived, we'd still have calculus, physics, etc in some form or another. The same thing with Einstein, Turing, etc. But that doesn't mean genius is overrated. What's overrated is the hero worshiping narrative we build around a single genius due to racial or nationalistic reasons.
But I think we should have as many geniuses working on problems as possible rather than saying that genius is overrated.
> Hundreds of thousands of fatalities on both sides of the war are directly attributable to his policies.
Millions of fatalities on one side ( 4+ million innocent vietnamese died - mostly civilians ). Tens of thousands on the other side ( 58 thousand - mostly invading soldiers ).
No. Journalism isn't a pillar of democracy. The ancient greeks who invented democracy didn't have journalism. When the US was founded, we didn't have journalism. Also, dictatorships have journalism. Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Communist China all had journalism.
> The well educated professionals who deep, lengthy dives into corruption, raw data, etc.
Do you think really think this is what journalists do? The older I get and the more I learn about the history of journalism, the more skeptical I get about this claim.
> How will democracy survive if no is being paid to spends weeks, years, to go deep on a subject and citizens can't be fully informed?
How did democracy come into existence without journalism?
You could argue free speech/free press are one of the pillars of modern democracy. If you look at who is attacking free speech/free press, you'll notice it is idealogically driven corporate journalists.