社會進步主要由大眾推動還是精英推動？
辯論賽，我們是反方，大眾。
極好和急壞的人造就了歷史， 平凡的大眾繁衍了種族。
I changed my mind after reading the following passage.
"Human memory is finite and human reasoning is limited. Students of history can understand only so much. As a result, we tend to simplify. One way we simplify is through hero worship, by conflating significant individuals with the community of knowledge they represent. Instead of understanding the enormous complexity that goes along with multiple people pursuing multiple aims and trying to remember all of it—an impossible task—we wrap events up into a little ball and associate them with a single individual. Not only does that allow us to ignore vast amounts of gory detail, but also it allows us to tell a story. The story of the great individual』s life becomes a surrogate for the complex web of interpersonal relationships and events that constitute a community. We do it when we think about politics, entertainment, and science. We substitute individual stories for the truth.
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone"
是誰把馬雲推向首富，又是誰建造哈佛？
精英推動社會，大眾孕育精英。首先有個前提假設大家要搞清楚，精英最開始不是精英的，至少不是公認的精英，因為那個時候他沒任何成果，所以，精英只有在他驚動了世界之後才被大家稱為精英，意思就是隻有在有答案了他纔是精英，之前都是大眾！
我不考慮你辯論賽的因素，因為通常辯論反方都不一定聽得懂你的引用。事實上你提到的這個問題屬於一個史學觀問題。我大概記得的比如布羅代爾的大歷史觀（後來的黃仁宇就是受他影響的），還有布羅代爾弟子反對他提出的政治史觀事件推動史觀等。我這方面還沒有個系統的瞭解，都是隻記得點零碎的，不敢誤導你。
總之建議瞭解的方向是去找幾個著名的歷史學家，看看歷史主流持不同的史學觀的人他們的論點是什麼。我們是正方。比賽完了嗎？贏了嗎？？求指點。
精英推動，28原則，沒有愛迪生，能發明電燈，沒有中國頂尖的航天科學家，大眾有研究航天的？大眾只是勞動力，領導人是精英。如果把一個國家的精英調走，社會會出現斷層。
我們也要辯論了～也是大眾方可否給點提示
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