Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.
Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.
It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
No opposing quotes found.