This reminded me of @bethsawin's excellent thread on paradigm shifts and why for instance, Miami realtors in "their fancy realtor outfits, but with rubber boots to slog across the flooded sidewalks... almost weren't seeing the rising water at all." 1/https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1124422734912430080 …
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Emily Cunningham Retweeted Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
"The dying of a paradigm is a collective process, but people move along it at different speeds." ~
@bethsawin Here's a link to the whole, must-read thread: 2/https://twitter.com/bethsawin/status/1113480850912481280 …Emily Cunningham added,
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"The more deeply a group believes something - 'market forces, engineers, the government, will fix it,' 'we we live in the best possible way today,' 'economies always move towards progress' - the less likely they are to be able to take in evidence to the contrary." ~
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Emily Cunningham Retweeted Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
In another, related thread, @bethsawin tackles how power makes some unable to see what's in front of them: "the more wealth and privilege, the more ability to buffer, the less incentive to address root cause or face up to anomalies [in the paradigm]"
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