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brian kennedy's avatar

“Off” what? “Normalcy?” You need to be more specific if you want to appeal to something deeper that the “normalcy bias” of the typical low-information sheep, don’t you agree?

I know that biodynamically grown grapes for wine are priced at a premium because of his work. Also, he predicted that the method used to create queen bees commercially would lead to problems in a hundred years which seems to have been borne out in experience. Buckminster Fuller said that if you are a generation ahead people call you crazy, and two generations ahead they call it genius, so he said he stayed three generations ahead, LOL!

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

the more apropos saying today is, if you're one step ahead of the crowd you're called a genius, if you're two steps ahead you're called insane.

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brian kennedy's avatar

Then there is also that Lynard Skynard lyric “Gimmiethree steps Mistergimmie three steps… an I won’t bother you no more!” That was pretty ingenious thinking also.

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