Che Guevara=great genius?

[Gustaf]

I saw this BBC program the other day that Swedish State Television had imported, which is a series called Great Geniuses of History, or something like that. It previously featured people like Aristotle and Descartes/Cartesius. The latest episode was about...Che Guevara. I found this a little bit odd. The speaker was a member of, I think, the Socialist Worker's Party, and basically seemed to base his idea of Guevara on that movie that came out a year or so back and claimed that it was good to buy T-shirts with Che on because it demonstrated a protest against the capitalist society, etc.

So what do you all think? Was Che up there with Einstein and the boys?

[minionofmidas]

Lol no, not that it's relevant.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Lol @ SWP

Old joke; the SWP isn't Socialist, isn't a Party and doesn't have any Workers in it

[Beet]

No, but he is a genius at making a bland documentary like Great Geniuses of History more interesting. I mean, who really gives a crap about Descart and Aristotle and all those other old farts? What did they ever do for us anyway? Give us something hawt and sexy!

[Tetro Kornbluth]

No, but he is a genius at making a bland documentary like Great Geniuses of History more interesting. I mean, who really gives a crap about Descart and Aristotle and all those other old farts? What did they ever do for us anyway? Give us something hawt and sexy!

And the beard. Let's not forget the beard.

Lol@Al, still to this today totally true.

[Gabu]

I mean, who really gives a crap about Descart

Mathematicians find him fairly important.

[Colin]

I mean, who really gives a crap about Descart

Mathematicians find him fairly important.

Yes I'm sure all three mathematicians watching that program got massive boners because he was being mentioned.

Well Che makes the programing spicier, riskier, a little on the flip side. While genius is debated it seems that he knew how to package himself, especially since they are still selling T-Shirts of him 40 years after his death, and he was an astute guerilla fighter and tactician.

[Gabu]

Well Che makes the programy spicier

For a moment I thought you said "Che makes the program spicer", as if to say that it adds more spics to the program.

[Gustaf]

I mean, who really gives a crap about Descart

Mathematicians find him fairly important.

As do philosophers!

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Well Che makes the programy spicier

For a moment I thought you said "Che makes the program spicer", as if to say that it adds more spics to the program.

LOL. That too.

[Wakie]

I guess it all depends on your definition of genius.  A salesman who is smart enough to figure out how to sell people a load of crap could be called a genius ... and I kinda think if you look at it that way figures like Che or Hitler could be called geniuses.  It doesn't necessarily mean they were good people.

[Gustaf]

I guess it all depends on your definition of genius.  A salesman who is smart enough to figure out how to sell people a load of crap could be called a genius ... and I kinda think if you look at it that way figures like Che or Hitler could be called geniuses.  It doesn't necessarily mean they were good people.

Well, I wouldn't include good manipulative skills in genius. That's probably why you would say things like "he's a genius when it comes to selling things" or something like that. It indicates that it isn't the natural use of the word.

[KEmperor]

Only in the beer commercial way.

[Beet]

I guess it all depends on your definition of genius.  A salesman who is smart enough to figure out how to sell people a load of crap could be called a genius ... and I kinda think if you look at it that way figures like Che or Hitler could be called geniuses.  It doesn't necessarily mean they were good people.

Well, I wouldn't include good manipulative skills in genius. That's probably why you would say things like "he's a genius when it comes to selling things" or something like that. It indicates that it isn't the natural use of the word.

Hey, my friend is a genius at data entry. Absolute GENIUS. Don't be ripping on him, man.