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"Having a different opinion than the consensus" isn't the same thing as "crazy". The article does this for many of its examples. It's tautological that people w
by hooande 4y ago
"Having a different opinion than the consensus" isn't the same thing as "crazy". The article does this for many of its examples. It's tautological that people who start new industries do so by questioning the status quo. But simply having a different point of view doesn't make you a crazy person.
- postsantum 4y agoCrazy is the knee-jerk word when you need to describe heterodoxy. If you spend more than a second to think about it, you might come up with different words. But not "crazy", which is effectively a placeholder
- bawolff 4y ago"Crazy" is informally used to mean acting outside the norm - e.g. "i had a crazy idea" when people say things like that, they do not (neccesarily) mean crazy as in have a mental health problem.