The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts...half owing to the numbers who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs - George Eliot, Middlemarch
Authoritative lists of supposed global role models provoke approval and controversy in equal measure, but also raise the more important question: who is honouring the vastly greater number of non-celebrity role models among our human family of perhaps 7.8 billion alive today?
And what about our perhaps 110 billion human ancestors who've gone before? Can we find out their names, dedicate appropriate monuments to them - benches, trees, flowers, songs, paintings, whatever - and teach the world's children to learn about them, befriend their memories, and pay tribute to them through a Facebook, or a Wikipedia, or a completely new type of profile that honours every individual we can discover who's ever lived?