Lindy Mayfield wrote:

> Oh, lightbulb faintly glows.  

I guess that's the glow to which we all contribute :)

But what dawned on me is...

> Russell McMahon wrote: 
> 
>>> "When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign:
>>> that all the dunces are in confederacy against him."   -Jonathan Swift
>> 
>> Within reason, yes.
>> Really great genius tends to rise above the flow in at least some 
>> cases.
>> eg Newton and Einstein were well respected in their time.

... that they were, obviously, respected by "dunces in confederacy". Now
the significance of this is... hm... doubtful? What does it mean to be
respected as a genius by a bunch of dunces?

Of course everybody thinks "the flow" is a "confederacy of dunces"... It's
something like common knowledge. Few think of their part in the flow :)

Gerhard

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