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People hate things that contradict their deeply-held beliefs. But since ideas that contradict deeply-held beliefs are the most interesting (see the history of physics for example), anyone on the hunt for interesting ideas will tend to offend a lot of people.
The difference between someone on the hunt for interesting ideas and a controversialist is that for the former, controversy is collateral damage. E.g. Darwin, who sat on natural selection for 15 years, no doubt partly because he feared the resulting controversy.
The idea hunters will often find themselves engaged with controversialists, though, and they tend to lose (in the short term) to the clever, energetic ones, because for them controversy is the goal, whereas the idea hunters want to get back to thinking.
Someone who has nothing better to do can always have the last word in a dispute.
Is it also that people find it difficult to make “paradigm shifts” in their thought processes? Because over time these contradictions have become norm/not contentious.
What are some modern ideas that meet this criteria? Will take my answer off the air since I imagine this could go bad really quickly...
Right now, we are facing it with the sex worker movement trolls that are being funded by lobbyist.
On one hand, it will offend a lot of people & on the other, it results in great stuff being built as the idea is kinda irrational at the time, therefore, it selects through the people who care the most about it doing it.
I wonder how well this applies to startups in practice. For most it seems the deeply-held belief was that the status quo is good enough. Search was good enough. Accepting credit cards was easy enough. And when a startup makes a 10x improvement - people notice.
Launched a crypto mining TV.. got a lot of flak... Specially from people with zero knowledge of crypto
Good catch, this is so true. This may also be related to reason why ideas hunters are hated in their life and celebrated after. Supporting ideas hunters looks a good idea. How do we do that at large scale?
In modern times universities have been their refuge. I worry they won't be such a good refuge in the future, though, because universities are being attacked from without by more effective competitors and from within by political ideology.
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