The year’s most surprising, consequential, and transformative figure wasn’t Pope Francis, he’s no revolutionary. But the NSA leaker, dark as his revelations may be, is all those things.
Francis is an extraordinary human being and an extraordinary pope. But to be Planet Earth’s person of the year, to be extraordinary is not enough.
You must be superlative—the year’s most surprising, most consequential, most transformative figure alive. And by that standard, the only possible standard, Pope Francis is not the person of the year. That is a title that can only belong to Edward Snowden.
Many people do not want this, or this kind of thing, to be true, but it is—whether measured by scope of change, depth of change, or something even deeper.
Consider the breadth of change wrought by Francis and Snowden. If the pope, writes TIME magazine, “could bring the church into a new relationship with its critics and dissidents—agreeing to disagree about issues that divide them while cooperating in the urgent mission of spreading mercy—he might unleash untold good.” Perhaps. So far, he has created the possibility.
Read moreEdward Snowden, Not Pope Francis, Is the Person of the Year - The Daily Beast
Francis is an extraordinary human being and an extraordinary pope. But to be Planet Earth’s person of the year, to be extraordinary is not enough.
You must be superlative—the year’s most surprising, most consequential, most transformative figure alive. And by that standard, the only possible standard, Pope Francis is not the person of the year. That is a title that can only belong to Edward Snowden.
Many people do not want this, or this kind of thing, to be true, but it is—whether measured by scope of change, depth of change, or something even deeper.
Consider the breadth of change wrought by Francis and Snowden. If the pope, writes TIME magazine, “could bring the church into a new relationship with its critics and dissidents—agreeing to disagree about issues that divide them while cooperating in the urgent mission of spreading mercy—he might unleash untold good.” Perhaps. So far, he has created the possibility.
Read moreEdward Snowden, Not Pope Francis, Is the Person of the Year - The Daily Beast
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