George W Bush has gone down in history as one of the world's most evil people, just behind Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.
The former president beat Stalin, Mao and Lenin as a figure of hate in a new study of history's biggest heroes and villains.
Albert Einstein, meanwhile, beat Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King and even Jesus Christ to be crowned the world's biggest hero.
This is according to the opinions of almost 7,000 students from 37 countries including Argentina, Pakistan, South Korea, Italy, and the US.
The students, who had an average age of 23, were asked to give their opinions on 40 figures and significant events throughout world history.
Interestingly enough the historical figures more despised than Bush were Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, and Adolph Hitler. Great company you keep there Georgie! (Can you believe his brother actually thinks he might be elected to the White House?)
Personally I was a little disappointed to see that Jesus beat out Buddha for biggest hero, and that President Obama was nowhere on the list.
I found this study particularly interesting in that the sampling was from all over the world, and that it was focused on a fairly young population.
This indicates to me that these young people are less religious, more inspired by science (Thomas Edison and Sir Isaac Newton also made the top ten.), and totally fed up with dictators and their wars.
In other words they are moving toward a more peaceful coexistence based on a love of logic, and away from the constant state of warfare dictated by an adherence to religious doctrines.
If true that is very good news indeed.
Millenials are assholes.
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DeleteWell they know more than I do, like who Qin Shi Huang is. 10th worst, and I don't know that name.
DeleteDubya.. The dumbest human EVER to be elected to public office ANYWHERE and a national disgrace for America for generations to come.
ReplyDeleteHe was NOT elected. Dick Cheney was....fuck the supreme court..
DeleteWe are going to be held accountable someday, somehow..
He was not elected, he stole both elections. Florida and Ohio were rigged by the Bush gang.
DeleteDear 4:41 -- As the parent of two "Millenials," I take issue with your vulgar condemnation.
ReplyDeleteI know dozens of "Millenials," through the friends and classmates of my kids. They're very aware of their surroundings -- for many of them, American wars have been true for the better part of their lives. They don't protest, as Baby Boomers did, because there's no draft and there's much more economic uncertainty.
They've been surrounded by sophisticated technology all their lives -- so even if they're not science whizzes, they know that science, technology, engineering, and math influence them daily. That's why they pay attention to scientists: Einstein, Edison, Newton.
Despite the constant conservative battering by Fox News that influences older generations, they get their information through more sophisticated -- and less doctrinaire -- sources.
They see that their parents, of the Baby Boom generation,
didn't make the world more peaceful or stable. They know they're going to have to be sharp and focussed to succeed in a turbulent future.
Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung were despicable, evil men, who killed millions of their own citizens. George Bush's actions are much more immediate to these kids, and they know he accomplished nothing with his wars and his plunging the country into financial uncertainty and indebtedness.
My children both went to church each week, were baptized and taught in Sunday School. As adults, both of them are smart, thoughtful, kind, and compassionate people, but neither of them has the slightest interest in organized religion -- and one of them was a theology major in college. The hypocrisy that they see in many religions is why they turn away and look to other sources for inner strength.
I certain that our country has a more certain future with them at the helm.
Thank you, 5:40! I, too, see what you so succinctly described in my nieces and nephews who are now in college or working to support THEIR families.
DeleteDitto that -- yes, here in the GWN also. I'm just astounded at how quickly 2 and 3-yr-olds pick up on all the electronic gadgetry and how studious and dedicated the teenagers are -- to learn everything about everything, and to get the highest marks possible to get into the college of their choice. No, they don't have any truck with a skyfather, preferring instead to deal kindly and civilly with their fellow human beings. So proud of them all!
DeleteI too appreciate Millenials who can think for themselves and reject the idiocy of a religion that can praise a child molester while condemning a president for his racial heritage. However, I must take exception to your statement that we boomers did not make the world more peaceful or stable. Many of us tried and continue to maintain that idealism that defined our generation This boomer abhors religious hypocrisy, war, FOX, and the whole litany of destructive policies foisted on this nation wrapped in the flag and religion for the purposes of manipulation. The people who continue to destroy this nation day after day want everyone to believe they are the true patriots and to question their motives is to be unpatriotic and unChristian. I hope Millenials are the generation that finally understands that what makes our nation exceptional should not be confused with those who are liars, cheats, war mongers, hypocrites, and the like. When I think of all the things that make this nation great, Bush and Cheney are not even footnotes.
DeleteBully, bully, bully.. That is how those fuckers quashed those who tried in vain the last 50 years to call those FUCKS out. You Are Exactly Right!!!
DeleteI long for the day when they all "wake the Fuck up" and make this world a kinder, gentler, healthier place..
When GOD is on your side - there is absolutely nothing you won't do.
ReplyDelete...including torture.
On my list George W is more evil than Jeffrey Dahmer and Satan.
ReplyDeleteHey, I don't like George Bush either, but to put him on the same list as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao negates the evil those last three perpetrated. And that bothers me.
ReplyDeleteIt ought to bother you that W Bush effed up this country by starting unprovoked wars costing millions of lives, and costing us billions of dollars and effing up our country for years.
DeleteIt has taken Pres. Obama years to clean up Bush's disaster.
'''Personally I was a little disappointed to see that Jesus beat out Buddha for biggest hero, and that President Obama was nowhere on the list.'''
DeleteJESUS IS and always will be #1!!!!!!!!!
Why does it bother you what they say about Bush? You don't think what Bush did was evil? Starting wars for oil profit and to settle an old family vendetta with Saddam Hussein. Murdering Saddam and all of his sons. In the process getting millions of people killed. You actually don't think that is evil?
DeleteBush is just an evil as those the rest of those monsters mentioned.
And it ignores plenty that should have made the list.
DeleteIdi Amin comes immediately to mind.
Well, lots of millennial don't know much about what happened in Russia during the 1930's to the 1950's when Stalin finally died. He was responsible for the deaths of millions of his fellow citizens.
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Bush is responsible for the death of millions, too. He knew Iraq had nothing to do with 911, but he just wanted to go to war.
DeleteWow, three (3) of the forty choices were women.
ReplyDeleteJust 45 years ago, my college forced entering students to take a "career aptitude" test. Over and over, the idiot test offered pairs of "interests" where I was to select a favorite of the pair. One frequent choice was "read about the lives of great men" (great WOMEN obviously didn't make the grade).
The deliberate slamming of women is alive and well all these years later. Wish I'd been included in this "survey" so I could rightly label it for the hate crime it is.
You know, the kids are all right and alright. It took a lot of millenials to get out the vote for President Obama, I know because I worked with them and am the parent of three. They're not afraid to work and sacrifice for the kind of world they want, they're extremely aware of the damage eight years of Bush and war have caused, and they don't want to go back.
ReplyDeleteNow if we can get the parents off their butts and gotv, then we're in good shape.
Neither Jesus nor Buddha would have seen themselves--or wanted to be seen as--heroic figures, based on what we know of them. Their humility looms large.
ReplyDeleteDoubt that the tabloid Daily Mail knows what constitutes a statistically significant sample, in any case.
I nominate Pol Pot up there with the evil ones
ReplyDeleteBoy, that is a tough one. If pressed I would have a hard time deciding who I hated more between Stalin and Bush.
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