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A Case of the Mondays: List of Most Overrated Things»
I wrote this note on Facebook while feeling somewhat contrarian. My rule here is that everything has to have a large number of defenders, and as small as possible a number of detractors. Of course everything here is culture-dependent; when a category makes sense only within a specific culture, I went with the West, or the United States.
Literature: Shakespeare. If they read Dan Brown in four hundred years, they’ll consider him profound, too.
Leaders: Churchill. He had a forty-year career as…