>>6008736This is all very nice, until you remember that Cesar, Napoleon and all of the "great heroes" were simply avatars of the social conscience of their times.
A man or a woman does not truly make history, only the People can. The slaves of Egypt and Greece and Rome built the great cities of the past, just as it is the soldiers who win wars. Never forget this, lest you fall victim to the erroneous idea that the individual is the ultimate motor of history. An individual alone is nothing, only Humanity can write history.
Here, have a Prometheus image. After all, the prometheian myth of progress is what this thread is about.