I replied on this in another subthread, a minute ago or so.
But as for the 'mainstream', Joscha exactly doesn't want to be mainstream - see his TT stream: :)
"In a playground where most people can neither come up with ideas of their own.." and various other tweets and presos related to the harm of conforming to societal norms of thinking.
If your views happen to align with the mainstream, that still isn't a reason to change them in and of itself. Being ruled and controlled by the mainstream is bad, because the mainstream makes mistakes; but that doesn't mean that the right path is just to try and be as much the opposite of the mainstream as possible.
But as for the 'mainstream', Joscha exactly doesn't want to be mainstream - see his TT stream: :)
"In a playground where most people can neither come up with ideas of their own.." and various other tweets and presos related to the harm of conforming to societal norms of thinking.