We can intuit, then, an infinite domain of infinite potential—consciousness itself—within which there is an enormously powerful attractor Field organizing all of human behavior into what is innate to “humanness.” Within the giant attractor Field are lesser Fields of progressively less energy and power. These Fields, in turn, dominate behavior, so

The fact that the state of the network determines whether global cascades are possible explains not only why some ideas catch on and others do not, but why some ideas appear over and over again and go nowhere until one day they change everything.

I think I know the explanation, and it also explains why 80/20 is becoming even more prevalent, affecting our lives in mysterious and perplexing ways. The answer is in the burgeoning power of networks. The number and influence of networks has been growing for a long time, at first a slow increase over the past few centuries, but since about 1970

When we shift our focus from an individual to their network of relationships, we start asking different questions: how the communities an individual belongs to are structured; what is their dynamics; how the influence spreads within them; who are the most active and/or valuable members. This shift reveals not our inferred, but our actual taste.