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      %PARADIGM SHIFT VALUE IDEAL CHANGE GROW ALIEN+931030
    %ESCAPE DOUBLE BIND PERSON TRAP ASSUME ATTITUDE 931030

     A  paradigm shift is not a technical  accomplishment,
for it is not possible when working within one paradigm to
identify  the goals of a paradigm shift,  to value the new
goals as worthy of efforts needed to achieve the goal, and
to devise technical procedures by which to reach the goal.

     Paradigm   shifts  involve  very personal  shifts  in
ideals,   values,  principles,   attitudes,   assumptions,
priorities, passions and other emotions.   Such shifts are
reflexive in nature, not objective in nature.   People who
are involved in a paradigm shift cannot be objective about
the  paradigm shift---they are either participants in  the
shift  (and  so are not objective about it)   or  are  not
involved  in  any meaningful way in the shift;  and so are
uninformed  and  "able"   to  be  "objective"   about  the
reflexive shift in personal ideals,   values,  principles,
attitudes,  assumptions,  priorities,  passions and  other
emotions.

     Usually  those  people who are partially aware  of  a
paradigm shift which is occurring around them, but are not
involved  in  any  meaningful way in the shift, tend to be
inhibitors of the  paradigm shift---for they are naturally
defending  the  old  paradigm which is threatened  by  the
paradigm  shift.   Paradigm  shifts threaten the  personal
"security" which an old paradigm  appears to give to those
who are the incarnation of the established paradigm.  Thus
paradigm  shifts engender defensive maneuvers on the  part
of technocrats who  are  the incarnation of an established
technocratic paradigm.

     Paradigm  shifts  usually involve  conflicts  between
those people who are supporters of the  paradigm shift and
those  people  who  are  mounting defenses  and  desperate
celebrations   of  the  traditional  paradigm   which   is
threatened  by the shift.   The conflicts pertain  to  the
shift  in  ideals and values which may either  be  overtly
affirmed, celebrated and  articulated;   or  may  be  only
tacitly  affirmed,   celebrated  and  represented  through
shifts in technological emphasizes.

     When the focus is only upon old and new  technologies
which  affirm  the  old  and  new paradigms there is often
confusion about the nature of the conflict between the old
and new sets of ideals and values on the one hand, and the
the  old and new sets of technologies on the  other  hand.
Often it is important to clarify the nature of the old and
new  sets  of ideals and values,  to clarify the conflicts
between the old and new, and to articulate the very nature
of the confusions which exist.   If the defense of the old
is  via  collusive games of mutual  self  deception,   the
supporters  of  the old paradigm are  likely  to  work  to
undermine the articulation of such clarifications.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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