Listening to: Afloat - Evermore

Sticking with this evenings theme (”frameworks of the thought”) William Gibson posts an interesting description of how the current war is a bloody example of a clash of paradigms as per Kuhn’s The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions:

The bad news is that the policy-makers of the United States and Israel apparently (still) don’t get the new paradigm, and the bad news is that Hezbollah (et al, and by their very nature) do. Though that’s only bad (or double-plus-ungood) if you accept, as I do, that the new paradigm allows for a more effective understanding of reality. So if you still like to pause to appreciate the action of phlogiston when you strike a match, you may well be okay with current events. So many, God help us, evidently are.

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