End of Greatness?

[Brickjectivity]

If you see the early and mid twentieth century in any field, you will see people of immense character and caliber dominating the world...great people so to speak. For example:-
Science:- People like Einstein, Neils Bohr, Turing, Bertrand Russel
Pholosophers:- Wiitgenstein, Heidegger, Rawls, Sartre, Huxley etc
Arts:- Picasso, Dali
Literature:- Orwell, Hemmingway, Joyce, Woolf, Elliot, Tagore, (and many others in many other cultures)
Politicians and Social Reformers:- Churchill, Gandhi, MLK, Mandella, Thatcher,
Movies:- Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray,

These are to just to name a few off the top. Yet if an trying to remember living people of similar stature who are active over the last 30-years (1990 onwards say)...I am drawing blank.....literally.

Is this the case that our society's structure has changed in a way that we are no longer producing great people, but only efficient self-serving mediocrity? Or are we misled by portrayals of history that tends to magnify the past?

Comments and thoughts

There can only be 1 Buddy Holly. There can only be 1 Madonna or Elvis or Johnny Cash, etc. There can only be 1 Einstein. This is just how it is. There is a race to be the first. I cannot replace Leonardo DaVinci, because it is too late. When someone makes an artifice that is so great that it changes the world, then nobody else can do what they have done.

 

[syo]

Science:- Richard Dawkins, Steven Hawking, David Attenborough.
Philosophers:- Alvin Plantinga, Peter Singer, William Lane Craig, Sam Harris ( I think he's crappy but he will be remembered).
Arts:- I don't know artists!
Literature:- Rowling, Christopher Hitchens (alright he's dead but he was very active in the noughties), Douglas Murray and many other journalists.
Politicians and Social Reformers:- Trump, Thomas Sowell, Merkel, Blair, Putin, Zenelsky, Malala Yusafzai, Pope Francis (for good or ill).
Movies:- The Lion King (one of the highest grossing movies of all time), Titanic (same), Harry Potter series, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Passion of the Christ, Jurassic Park, The Matrix.

Yeah, I kinda agree.

 

[Sand Dancer]

Science:- Darwin, Curie
Philosophers:- James, Emerson, Lao-Tzu
Arts:- Monet, Homer
Literature:- (not into fiction, so my interested are limited) King, Koontz
Politicians and Social Reformers:- Gandhi, MLK, Mandela
Movies:- Hitchcock, Capra