And no, it's not a prison term I'm looking for. This has absolutely nothing to do with music, but I'm trying to think of a term to use as a metaphor and I simply cannot come up with it. Since the Mudcat is the largest collection of smartypants people i know, I figure someone will say, "Oh, yeah. It's .... " and my mystery will be solved.

so here it is:

In geometry, there is a term for the phenomenon in which you start out at the same point in an angle, then if you vary the angle by only twoor three degrees, it doesn't make much difference immediately, but if you keep drawing the two lines out farther and farther, as you go along the two lines diverge more and more.

The metaphor is about activism (so it is loosely related to some of the discussion on Mudcat) and about Margaret Mead's statement that two or three percent of any population fiercly committed to an ideal can change the world, and indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.

Anyone? Anyone?

Bueller

This is driving me crazy. ...

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