http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/02/a-few-ideas-connected-by-the-tag-folksonomy.html The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2005/02/a-few-ideas-connected-by-the-tag-folksonomy.html/comment-page-1#comment-350 Asteroid Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:32:54 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=433#comment-350 "those with different orientations may well be disadvantaged by their need to spend energy observing the mainstream" This may not, on sum, be a disadvantage. When they spend this energy, their different orientation virtually guarantees that they will observe the mainstream completely differently than the mainstream views itself. More often than not (I submit without proof), this will allow them to see solutions or courses of action that the mainstream does not, information that can be capitalized upon. For example, did you ever notice that, historically, a seemingly disproportionate number of the world's innovators, movers and shakers (Alexander, Turing, Lincoln, Michelangelo, etc.) are homosexual? I suspect this is the work of the above principle. There's probably a doctoral thesis in there somewhere. “those with different orientations may well be disadvantaged by their need to spend energy observing the mainstream”
This may not, on sum, be a disadvantage. When they spend this energy, their different orientation virtually guarantees that they will observe the mainstream completely differently than the mainstream views itself. More often than not (I submit without proof), this will allow them to see solutions or courses of action that the mainstream does not, information that can be capitalized upon.
For example, did you ever notice that, historically, a seemingly disproportionate number of the world’s innovators, movers and shakers (Alexander, Turing, Lincoln, Michelangelo, etc.) are homosexual? I suspect this is the work of the above principle. There’s probably a doctoral thesis in there somewhere.

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