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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Importance of Plural Agency in History
When you admit that the person who achieved a thing or the reason X happened wasn't one person it was a bunch of different people. That is a very difficult kind of story to tell, we're very good at telling stories about protagonists but not small teams. The real progress of history if you want to call it that are the real achievements of history were often achieved by a lot of different people sometimes together and sometimes apart. We tend to think about either great man history or great forces history. And when you actually look at history, what you usually get is neither of those.
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