There seem to be a lot of references to irreverent iconoclasts lately here, Adams and (always) Feynman and some Hamming and Hawking all the rest. In my personal

There seem to be a lot of references to irreverent iconoclasts lately here, Adams and (always) Feynman and some Hamming and Hawking all the rest. In my personal life I've heard people mention Magritte much more often than usual. Is that part of the zeitgeist? Is silly the hat we wear because someone tells us we must wear somber hats? Or else? Under the harshest, most doctrinaire leadership, the outliers thrive most and gain an audience. Not to call out Biden or dems here, but to say that both of those power parties seem awfully authoritarian, so . . .