Opinions of Thursday, 8 January 2015

Auteur: Allan Buah

Understand the criteria for classifying all time greatest

Most people classify the greatest of all time in various fields such as Rap, Football, Athletics, Boxing, Comedy etc from fanatical perspectives. These classifications are mostly funny and baseless. For example, someone would classify a budding professional in a field as part of the greatest of all time, because of his seemingly extraordinary works.

However, the Real Criteria for classifying the greatest of all time in every field are LONGEVITY, CONSISTENCY, PROFESSIONALISM, SKILL, EXPERIENCE, DISTINCTIVENESS, Awards etc, and not your fanatical perspective!

Having seen the Real Criteria, it is funny and baseless for anyone to classify a particular professional in a particular field who does not meet all these Real Criteria. Also, notice that "Awards" were not in capital letters because they are a deceptive, controversial and trivial criterion! Therefore, you cannot claim that Lionel Messi is the greatest footballer of all time, merely because he is the only footballer to have won the FIFA World Best Player (which is strictly European in nature) for four times and even consecutively.

And also, you cannot claim that Sarkodie is the greatest Ghanaian Rapper of all time, merely because he is the only Ghanaian Rapper to have won more prestigious International Awards such as the BET Best International Act Award.

The above two instances are only stronger in terms of "Time or Evolution," but not in all the listed Real Criteria. This is because there were many professionals in several fields who did the extraordinary, the unimaginable, the unthinkable and the unprecedented in the past.

But because they never won Awards in their time due to their absence, or the Awards cannot be compared to these contemporary ones, they cannot be left out in the classification of the greatest of all time. Therefore, as a Teenage Budding Article Writer, I live my Article Writing Life to successfully meet all these Real Criteria so that I would eventually be classified as the Greatest Article Writer in human history one day!

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