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===It is in a paradigm’s nature to be homogeneous===
===It is in a paradigm’s nature to be homogeneous===
=== It is hard to see out of the paradigm once you’re inside it ===
Once you are infused with the learning of the paradigm, it is hard to see out of it: all questions and their answers are sought, delivered and construed within the social and logical rules the paradigm implements. So even well-intended attempts to break out fail. For example, the following question in a staff survey  asks:
{{Quote|Management drives innovation in the firm?
[always][often][sometimes][seldom][never]}}
This invites employees to comment the firm’s innovation, to gauge its success. But what of a firm which persistently witters on about implementing [[chatbot]]<nowiki/>s, [[Legal services delivery|alternative legal service delivery]] and whatever other new-age guff that catches the chief executive’s eye? It may waste billions of dollars in fruitless pursuit of vague strategies, but the employee who wishes to answer that  can either select “seldom” — which isn’t true, and will only encourage the chief executive to run more quixotic attempts to solve intractible problems with coding acquired from the proverbial [[School-leaver in Bucharest|school leavers in Bucharest]] — or “always”, which will give the management team the validation that they are looking for. This is truly “[[seeing like a state]]”.


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*{{br|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}}
*{{br|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}}