It’s not a perfect analogy, but the split does map pretty well. The “invent a new thing” and “riffing off each other”, would be devs working on the protocol, LN, node software, wallets, Ecash, Ark, Statechains, other L2s, as well as cryptographers, BIP authors, and protocol researchers, whereas “contributing energy (time, adulation, organization, analysis)” fits pretty well to describe meetup facilitators, podcasters, conference organizers, community moderators, newsletter authors, and other hardcore bitcoiners.

In our case, there are some geeks and fanatics on both sides of the debate, but I would say that each is more heavily represented by one or the other.

I’ll leave it to others to identify the mops and sociopaths. ;)

Murch

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I hadn't thought about it this way. I'm not sure I fully follow it though: is the analogy that creators are devs and fanatics are "plebs" or "bitcoin maxis" or whatever term is current for referring to Bitcoin enthusiasts? 

If so, it does make it seem more of a dire situation than I imagined. 