BY STEWART SLATER Two-and-a-half thousand years ago, a man turned his back on the high position birth had given him and retreated to a life of solitary asceticism in the forest. Known then as Siddhartha Gautama, he is better known today as the Buddha, and an estimated 500 million people follow his teachings. Ninety years ago, a man died in poverty (due, in no small … Continue reading In Defence of Misfits and Loners