Paradigms
It is Nicolaus Copernicus’ birthday today (born 1473). His heliocentric hypothesis – that the Earth revolves around the Sun – helped to catalyse the scientific revolution. It’s a great example of a paradigm shift: nothing changed physically; but our worldview was profoundly altered forever. This is the deepest and most difficult kind of change – to achieve a collective mind-shift. Those in power (like the Church in Copernicus’ time and corporate and political elites now) resist. The paradigm shift struggles in play nowadays include reforming capitalism, making information free, embracing renewable energy and circular materials, serving all stakeholders equally. Are there others?
— Wayne Visser
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