how does one decide if a certain form of eccentricity is sustainable or not ..
there are obviously socio-economic factors that arise .. but it does some inherently dependent on the "i dont care/shamelessness" coefficient of an individiual to be non-conformist --> the "i dont care" value is what the eccentric person presumes to be the natural inclination to non-conformism, the "shamelessness" index would be a metric defined by the larger society for the same phenomenon but given a different name for obvious reasons.
aside: scientifically asymmetry seems to be associated with eccentricity .. why else would there be something called the eccentricity of an ellipse .. it appears to arise from a comparison with circles.
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just on the aside: eccentricity <= ex + centre - had nothing to do with science's attitudes towards symmetry. and that circles were considered perfect was a philosophical/artistic idea when science was driven by those two.
i think it's highly eccentric to compare a hyperbola to a circle and say that it is highly eccentric!
it is also highly eccentric to say that a parabola is less eccentric with respect to a circle than an ellipse!
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