Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoOur society has long passed the time during which a single person or writing could change everyone's opinions.message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1102arrow-down1message-squareOur society has long passed the time during which a single person or writing could change everyone's opinions.Maimas2@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-text
See, I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine, and it’s perfect example of something impossible today.
minus-squareEleventhHour@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·12 days agoBut everyone’s opinion was changed.
minus-squareEleventhHour@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·edit-212 days agoThat was not a criterion of OP’s question. As such, it doesn’t really matter. Just that they were changed is the qualifier here. If I were to guess, it at least changed their opinion of Martin Luther, even if they didn’t become protestants.
But everyone’s opinion was changed.
Opinion of what exactly?
That was not a criterion of OP’s question. As such, it doesn’t really matter. Just that they were changed is the qualifier here.
If I were to guess, it at least changed their opinion of Martin Luther, even if they didn’t become protestants.