Do They Need Each Other?

I was lying in bed this morning extremely tired because I had just woke up, and I started thinking about what we talked about in class concerning whether or not idealists need pragmatists and vice versa.  I believe that it goes both ways, in one sense someone could say idealists need pragmatists because for any idealistic goal or idea to be accomplished there must be a pragmatist there for a couple of reasons.  One, to help the idealists get started and to, in a way, do the dirty and simple work for them; in other words pragmatists provide the step stool for idealists to reach and be able to screw in the light bulb.  Two, to be a sort of cushion for the idealists when their ideas fail because if idealists had no support and help every time one of their ideas burned to the ground they would lose hope.  I only say that because idealistic goals are usually similar to a false dichotomy, they either accomplish their goal and the best becomes reality, or they do not accomplish that goal in which case the worst becomes reality; its kind of a fifty-fifty chance or a with or against situation.  Looking at it the other way, I think one could also argue that pragmatists need idealists so they can achieve greatness.  Yes, a company of all pragmatists would succeed, but it would not achieve ultimate greatness of succeed past the average without idealists in it to push for higher and greater things all the time.  In this way, it is viable to go both ways, but it is also viable to believe that without one, the other would die.