I know people try to categorize each other in many ways but the most common I hear is to say people are either dreamers or realists.
A realist takes the world as it is, sees what cards they have to play, and play not minding how they use the chances and possibilities opened up to them by dint of nature, culture or personal character. These are the people who say that nature is red in tooth and claw and there is nothing for them to do but be the same.
Dreamers see the world as it could be, see fault lines in the mechanisms we have inherited whether they be nature’s of society”s, and try to steer their lives and sometimes others, onto a better course as they envision it.
It doesn’t take much to see why both are always in conflict and it probably doesn’t take much to realise that dreamers are in the minority. And you cannot wonder why because to cede from the norms is a difficult and painful lifestyle that often costs as much in emotional turmoil as it does in financial and life’s chances.
It is strange but true that it takes a stronger mind to be a dreamer than to be a realist because it is aways easier to take part than to stand aloof, and if you do not believe that then look at any political system and see what happens to those who challenge it, throughout history. But then it is dreams that make one strong because dreamers don’t know how to play games