Core Concepts Group 2

Paradigmatic dis-inculturation:

Naturally, the next question is, how do we make those rules and make them stick? More to the point: how do we make them un-stick when we get sick of them?

Since about 1968, I have been actively devoting "CPU cycles" to pursuing the answers to those questions. Starting in about 1986, my attention turned to the subject of paradigms and paradigm shifts. When I first began holding forth on the subject, nobody had even heard of a paradigm. They all thought it terribly clever to say "A paradigm, isn't that 20 cents?"

Now of course, the term has become a hideous cliché, used by "La Latte League" to describe such trivial dreck as their choice of cover fabric for their Day-Timers. One lukewarm single non-fat grande with Sport Utility Vehicle, hold the neocortex.

Oddly enough, I became interested in paradigm "shifts" by analogy to identity "shifts." That's why the word paradigm and the word shift found themselves concatenated. Lo and behold, the prevailing term for a change in paradigm has become a "shift." Kinda makes you wonder. I'll have to re-check Kuhn and eat crow if that was one of his usages.

My theory is that one is initiated by one's cultural symbiotes into their principal paradigm set as a matter of course. One attains membership in the prevailing set of paradigms, which colors one's notion of causality, the nature of self and one's relationship to the universe(s). By the time one is old enough to question, one no longer thinks to do so -- indeed is unable to think to do so -- mistaking one's own filters for "the way things are."

Interestingly, questions designed to turn up paradigms, and the hooks which hold them to us, tend to cause sudden and complexly-structured time-dependent resistance increases on a GSR, a type of response to which the many commonly-available models are "blind." This has biased investigators and produced a number of "right-handed" soul-hacking technologies. Much hidden treasure lies off-scale to the left.

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