Cedric Chang wrote:

> IMHO the 80 percent in the middle follow each other herd-like, deviating
> little in their thought patterns.  The "best" 10 percent create new
> paradigms.  The "worst " 10 percent exploit the herd. 

I think that is a common perception, but one question is whether it is not
that common that it is simply how we perceive others: towards 10% we have a
positive attitude, towards 10% we have a negative attitude, and about the
rest we don't care much at all. If that's true, then we both are part of
the middle 80% here :)

And I still think it is what moves those 80% what matters -- at least what
matters for how things are being done. Them being "mainstream" is nothing
contrary to that; mainstream means nothing more than "this is how things
generally work". 

But maybe we started from different meanings of "matter" here.

Gerhard

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