> Maybe I'm missing who is challenging the established narratives and taking the risk as an iconoclast.
I think you're possibly moving the goalposts from simply 'publish' to 'be internationally recognised and lauded for major critical thinking'.
I think you're possibly moving the goalposts from simply 'publish' to 'be internationally recognised and lauded for major critical thinking'.
The poster responded with plenty of examples which you've dismissed with the unfortunate "goalposts" remark.
Not sure what thread you were reading - the one I responded to said it was impossible in general to get anything new published. You can see hundreds (thousands) of new published works every year. They moved the goalposts by then saying that they only consider publishing to mean critical work.
You’re on a wild roller coaster of opinions there!
How do you get to that point without taking the risk in the first place?
Writers have to start somewhere and they have to publish something in order to have the chance to become recognized.
And even if they fail at that they can still have an impact on someone else’s life in one way or another and to me that’s already valuable enough.