12-15-2019, 02:21 AM
(12-14-2019, 09:08 AM)Ghost Wrote: Another good one is Greta Thunberg, who turns 17 in a little under three weeks, as she was named Time Magazine's 2019 Person of the Year.
Maybe there could be something like this for each field:
- For sports, it could very well be Alina Zagitova like what you said, but she's ranked #16290 on Famous Birthdays. I actually didn't know who she was until I saw this thread. I'm however leaning towards putting down Coco Gauff.
- For music, it's Billie Eilish.
- For politics, it's Greta Thunberg.
There are no fifteen-year-olds in major-league or NCAA sports. It won't be long before someone born in 2001 makes it to major-league baseball, and the first ones are approaching the ends of their NCAA apprenticeships before signing fat contracts in the NFL and NBA.
Politics? The Millennial Generation has yet to make a mark... not that it isn't on the brink. Many high-powered political careers begin in their thirties. If the 2020 election goes as I expect, then I expect the early wave of the Millennial Generation to take House and Senate seats... not to mention a Governorship here or there, and maybe some mayoral slots. Elective office for people born after 2000? Not for another few years, at the least.
Achievements in science and mathematics can come early, as a pattern. It could be that the very young do not know what is well understood to be impossible. (Heck, I once toyed with Fermat's Last Theorem... until I saw my efforts going nowhere. Just because something seems obvious does not mean that an easy proof is available).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.