As always, the art is in finding the right balance for the given situation.

Great article. (Think the 'right balance' idea, though, may be a form of rigidity sometimes).

Moderation in everything, including moderation.

abailart, I agree. When to lead/take a stand is also an important consideration.

It is a really rich article, isn't it.

It's great, have just read it in detail. The text is thick and compressed and the aside references are stimulating (e.g to Kuhn, to mood states, to the tipping points of group/individual 'flips'). It is rare (for me) to atart printing something as soon as I've skimmed over it. Ny coincidemce, have just been given a new edition of 'The Selfish Gene' which sort of poses a question of how to transcend flip-flop; on-off; either-or states. The space between parallax views. So kind of exciting, and taken me, from a clear and one may say rigidly precise exposition to an inchoate imaginative one! Thank you.

I wrote the author to let him know just how interesting, well researched, and well thought out his article was. It is very good and, as you implied, almost (or actually) transformative of one's mind-state.