From the category archives:

PARADIGM CHANGE

DEMONSTRATION/ALTRUISM/NARCISSISM: the connection

June 9, 2010

ITEM: In 1960 I was a very conservative, naive student at a very liberal, socially-conscious college.  That combination didn’t always lend itself to a smooth college experience.  When the Progressive Socialist Society announce that it was staging a demonstration at the local Woolworth’s store to support the black men and women who were denied [...]

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GREEN: no longer just “tree huggers”

May 6, 2010

About ten years ago we lived across the street from a cathedral which had a lovely evergreen bush/tree in its side yard.  We could see it from our apartment windows.  Every day a diminutive lady would walk down the street, carefully place her shopping bags on the lawn, and walk up to the tree.  [...]

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PARADIGM CHANGE #3: Adolescence

April 25, 2010

I remember hearing some years ago that the term adolescence was a term invented for the American young person who was transitioning between childhood and young adulthood.  The point that person (name gone in my memory) was making was that only in America could this period have such an obvious manifestation.  Obviously, that isn’t true [...]

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PARADIGM CHANGE #2: Church and State

April 17, 2010

The fragile relationship between church and state has not always been that way.  It is only a matter of a few decades ago that the question was much more of an intellectual debate than it is now.  Recently, however, the issue has risen to the point of actual legislative testing and there is a [...]

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PARADIGM: A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them

April 10, 2010

A catch-word common in organizations in the 70’s and 80’s was paradigm.   Organizations embraced the idea that in the last few decades of the 20th century it was necessary to challenge the paradigms that had prevailed in the earlier decades and to recognize that society was being called to live under new paradigms. I came [...]

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