[From Richard Pfau (2011.08.03 1210EST]
Here’s a quote that seems worth considering by those of us seeking to change the dominant input-output paradigm of psychology:
"Whole societies … resist challenges to their paradigms harder than they resist anything else.
So how do you change paradigms? Thomas Kuhn…had a lot to say about that. You keep pointing at the anomalies and failures in the old paradigm. You keep speaking and acting, loudly and with assurance, from the new one. You insert people with the new paradigm in places of public visibility and power. You don’t waste time with reactionaries; rather you work with active change agents and with the vaste middle ground of people who are open-minded."
With Regards,
Richard Pfau
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From: Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008, p. 164.