2007-10-01 03:43:11 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Sort of. It's the individuals who approach the situation with a new and novel idea. When Christopher Columbus said he could sail around the world, everyone thought he was crazy. It was not the fact he was crazy, he simply earned the title by thinking differently.
2007-10-01 03:48:06 · answer #1 · answered by Chris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so. Mother Theresa was a misfit for actually going into the slums and doing what she could when all others only gave it lip service. Look at the childhoods of Galileo, Edison, Einstein and others. But the misfits, by their actions, raise the bar for others and thus become the ideal. They are no longer the misfit, but the leader. Being a misfit is not a necessary criteria. Hardship may be, those who rose from being first generation Americans of immigrants who learned little English; and living in the hardships of the world. Look at Davy Crockett, Lincoln, Hariet Tubman; and what about all those who have risen from Hell's Kitchen?
2007-10-05 02:34:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Hitler,Stalin,Saddam and others like them could have been termed crazy and probably misfits,they all changed the world for the worse.
Guys like Kennedy and Churchill had the same cranial capacity,and may have been misfits,to a point but the changes were likely for the better.
2007-10-01 04:11:21 · answer #3 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't think of anyone who was not a misfit that changed the world?
2007-10-01 05:00:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
You're crazy may have been said about Einstein, Galileo etc - it was also said of a lot of people who WERE crazy. And it is unusual for it to be seriously meant in the first case. An exception is Wegener who developed the theory of continental drift.
2007-10-01 05:49:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they are - but they can change it for the better, the worse or both.
Look through history, It's not very often that your "average Joe or Jane" manages to do or say something that transforms the world.
Nope, it's the weirdos who most often do that.
2007-10-01 03:48:40 · answer #6 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the time, yes. I'd like to change the world... but to do it I'd have to do things that most would consider horrible, but it would actually work out for the best in the long run... but I don't even know how I would go about doing them.
2007-10-01 16:14:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah because they think out side the square,and see the world and the problems from different angles.The others are the thinkers and straight talkers
2007-10-01 03:47:51 · answer #8 · answered by kevinmccleanblack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wouldn't say "usually," but i would say sometimes. often incompetents are in charge, if they have money, connections, and power. incompetents are not necessarily misfits or crazy. often they are just stupid or misguided.
2007-10-01 03:48:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's right! The world is composed of all the others, so who else could change them?
2007-10-01 03:48:06 · answer #10 · answered by canron4peace 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋