Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead
For more about Margaret Mead, keep reading....
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Things which enjoy majority support of the people began with one person or a few people:
- For almost three centuries, Christianity was considered a cult religion until Roman Emperor Constantine had his religious experience and made Christianity the official religion of Rome
- In its earliest days, Islam was known to a handful of people besides The Prophet; within one century it was on the verge of dominating Western Europe and displacing Christendom.
- During the American Revolution, more people were neutral or loyalists of the British Empire than in favor of American Independence.
- In 1917, Marxists led by Vladimir Lenin were small in number yet changed the course of history-- to this day-- when they replaced the Russian Empire with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the USSR).
This tendency for mainstream to come out of humble (or eccentric) beginnings can also be seen in the advance of technology:
- Personal computers (not simply PCs made by IBM or compatible with them) were playthings until Stephen Wozniak and Steve Jobs made the first Apple I computer in the Jobs' family garage; we know how that turned out.
- The World Wide Web was initially limited to academic institutions exchanging research with each other; now it's an economic juggernaut thanks to companies such as Amazon and Google. * Cryptocurrency was a curiosity from the day Satoshi Nakamoto brought the Bitcoin network online though at least 2015;the rest is history.
Some Information about Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US on 1901-December-16. She died in New York, New York, US on 1978-November-15.
Margaret Mead was an anthropologist. She is best known for the anthropologic work in Oceania centered around the non-literate people (that is, people with no written language) of that area of the Pacific Ocean. She had written 23 books, among them Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis (1942; with husband Gregory Bateson), and A Rap on Race (1971; with James Baldwin). She was also associated the with American Museum of Natural History in various capacities for 52 years, from 1926 until her death in 1978.
Margaret Mead was a high-profile personality who crossed into celebrity. Outside her chosen profession, she had positions on many topics. Among the topics where she devoted time were child rearing, drug abuse, environmental pollution, nuclear proliferation, population control, race relations, sexual morality, women’s rights, and world hunger.
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