The Four Quadrants of Conformism: http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html
He didn't die for them. He was put under house arrest. Because in fact some fairly powerful people were sympathetic to him. They just couldn't be open about it.
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Galois died for group theory /s
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Didn't he die from a duel?
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From Richard Rumelt's book - ... one must put aside the comfort and security of pure deduction and launch into the murkier waters of induction, analogy, judgment, and insight ..pic.twitter.com/me7w1CEohg
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I like the essay. But the part about agressive conformists always being that way disagrees with my reality. My family fought for civil rights in the 60s and were ostracized. Now they are the "Orange Man Bad" crowd. Did their personality change?
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