I am glad that you pointed that out fuser, but it is *kinda* mandatory; it says a poll *may* be deleted if it doesn't include an other option.
previously it explains that "No matter how well you think that you have thought out a scenario, there is a good chance that you will have missed one or more perspectives regarding the subject matter"
... the reason i did not include an other option is the complete opposite of the encouragement of an other option.... because my poll is vague and general to begin with, an other option would detract from my desire to see people's vague 'hunches' based on their general impressions. There are TOO many scenarios where one or the other could be considered as 'more important', so I would like each person to take their 'too many scenarios' and with those accounted for still try to answer one of the given options.
I personally found it difficult to answer this question myself, and i resignedly selected one option over the other. It is within that resignation of choice that questions arise, those are the kinds of questions I would like to see asked by people in this thread. The other option would detract from people asking themselves the questions of what causes systemic change or from even wondering about the course of cultural transformation.
Unthinking Majority wrote:Jordan Peterson
I didn't know who that was so i googled his name and when i saw his picture i was like, oh shit, that creepy guy!
He was not who I had in mind when I was thinking of influential professors, I was thinking more along the lines of Chomsky or something; even professors beyond the grave perhaps. But I suppose its not up to me to say who one wishes to consider influential. **edit, upon reading more about him I see that he does in fact have a bit more influence than I had presumed based on the seminar i saw him speaking in. I did not find him charismatic in that one seminar in the slightest, in fact, he was off-putting. But maybe he was just having a bad day. Or does he always seem like he is having a bad day? That there is a well of anger within him? But it is i suppose unfair of me to throw an ad hominem attack against a professor, and not look to what he is saying; but he is a professor who has opted to use the means of social media to convey his message; so in some sense, the way he presents would affect how and who he is influencing.