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> Hence neither a man's contemporaries nor the man himself can form any final estimate of him or of his fitting position, because their knowledge is too imperfect. History often reverses the decision of contemporaries.

Probably true about Elon.



But I think mainly in the direction of demotion. Offhand I can't think of examples of someone ... oh, wait Van Gogh.


Baruch Spinoza is another. He was excommunicated.




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