I don't think this holds to scrutiny. This breaks down as soon as you get out of the idea phase.

Everyone has visions, and most great achievements today are the results of an amalgamation of them. The really big achievements are almost always the result of groups, not individuals.

People that idolize others have to turn a blind eye to everything surrounding that individual's achievement. It's simply easier to simplify big achievements as "this person was great". In reality though, it's a culmination of everything that came before that individual, the support around them, some of their decisions and much more.

In other words: monuments are a bad argument to evaluate if something is good or not. Especially in today's individualistic society.

It's a shallow Instagram motivational phrase.

Seems like confirmation bias. We often than not like to lionize successful individuals, but plenty of visions are false or otherwise fail. On the other hand, we tend not to remember group efforts because it's harder to remember multiple individuals at a time. But surely they do exist. Was there a single visionary behind Bell Labs? Xerox PARC? The traitorous eight? The Apollo program? The Manhattan Project?

>We build monuments for individuals not for committee.

That's the second time i'm hearing that quote today from completely unrelated sources.

The quote is from David Ogilvy, in case anyone is wondering.

"Search all the parks in all your cities; you'll find no statues of committees."

https://x.com/The_AdProfessor/status/1705254246109651053

Of course, you are right.

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Edit, I was mistaken in my earlier post, so I will just leave this here as a correction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burghers_of_Calais