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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9310302.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %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) ==========================================================