If you could meet a historical figure, who would it be and why?
He was a genius, gave us laws protecting the working man from feudal nastiness, sensible system of measurement based on the mass of a cubic centimetre of water, city planning – where to end the list of achievements. One could go on.
So why did he have to be a war monger, resulting in the deaths of millions? Hubris? Stupidity?
He wasn’t a stupid man, so I’d like to ask him what it was all about.
Why would you ruin an amazing reputation with stupidity? Why would you take a huge army into a Russian winter?
Of course it is a mistake to equate intelligence with common sense.
Clive La Pensée 