Progress comes from the persons willing to be different and create a new approach to solving problems—or entire new industries. Conformity is the bane of the politically correct approach to “consensus.” In a conformity environment the best one can hope for is a local optimum solution that will likely be outworn quickly as reality sets in.
The rush to premature consensus destroys the possibility of achieving a global optimum.
In Russia and China one can be shot for being different. In the west, one is merely ostracized and demonized.
Progress comes from the persons willing to be different and create a new approach to solving problems—or entire new industries. Conformity is the bane of the politically correct approach to “consensus.” In a conformity environment the best one can hope for is a local optimum solution that will likely be outworn quickly as reality sets in.
The rush to premature consensus destroys the possibility of achieving a global optimum.
In Russia and China one can be shot for being different. In the west, one is merely ostracized and demonized.
I think you might need to update your beliefs about Russia. The ones you seem to have are stuck in the 1930s-1940s.
Maybe not shot, but still jailed:
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/17/russian-court-to-rule-in-pussy-riot-trial/?iref=allsearch