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Conforming to the norm leads to stagnation as progress requires change. Teams don't change the status quo, they just get known tasks finished faster. Sure, if

• drzaiusapelord 12y ago
  The problem with your approach is that unless you invest a non-trivial amount of time and effort into something, you're just not qualified to question things on a level where you can do a wholesale dismissal. Unfortunately, many don't adhere to this. Thus the endless diatribes about the evils of vaccines and Thomas Edison. Rebelliousness is typically a shortcut to thinking. Its not actual thinking. From my experience, most self-styled intellectual rebels are dilettantes who are socially rewarded for their loudmouth views. From a scholarly or historical perspective, they believe and preach garbage. The successful types, even in fields we agree tend to be rebellious, are almost universally the more milquetoast and calm personalities able to work with others who took interesting but usually incremental turns. This is why we all know who, say, Lou Reed is and accept his contributions to rock, but may not feel the same about guys like G.G. Allin or Marilyn Manson.
  • waterlesscloud 12y ago
    Wait, are you saying Lou Reed was milquetoast and calm?
    • drzaiusapelord 12y ago
      Compared to Allin? Yes.
      • waterlesscloud 12y ago
        "Are you saying Kobe Bryant is short?" "Compared to Godzilla? Yes." :-)