Overwhelmingly economists and money reformers are well intentioned and intelligent people. There can be no doubt of that. But ideas and dominant paradigms have a way of rendering well intentioned and intelligent people stupid, weak willed and ill intentioned toward those who actually have made the transition to a new paradigm. Why is this? Well, first of all paradigms are really difficult things to see because old paradigms have been so long in force and so their way of thinking and/or acting has become habitual. Secondly, new paradigms are often entirely different ideas/directions/policies than any ever applied to the discipline. In fact the new idea/paradigm may appear utterly irrelevant, ridiculous and absurd to those who still reside within the mindset of the old idea/paradigm. Thirdly, and related to the first, paradigms are generally held truths in the minds of most people and therefore more difficult to penetrate the orthodoxies holding the old paradigm in place. Fourth, being able to see a new idea/paradigm is not always the result of a rational, logical or even scholarly process. In fact it is very often more a combination of luck, circumstance and simple perseverance than it is the aforementioned normal intellectual process. It is usually true that people seeing the new paradigm have learned much of the discipline(s) that the new idea/paradigm is being applied to simply because they have persisted. This can make those prone to authoritarianism reject those advocating the new paradigm. Sometimes colleagues or even complete strangers can “whisper in the ear” of an otherwise open minded seeker and convince them that someone is a fanatic, an idiot or trying to glom onto the fame and/or attention of that seeker in some unethical or unfair way. This of course inhibits the open mindedness and expansionary mindset of that otherwise diligent seeker. One must always “keep their own counsel” especially regarding ideas and paradigms.
So communicating a new paradigm is an inherently difficult task.
Define characteristics of new paradigms inclusive, expansionary, oppositional/absurd to current orthodoxies (and invariably when the new paradigm is perceived the old paradigm is indeed immediately recognized as the absurd belief), pull in people’s unconscious biases/false orthodoxies from actually unrelated disciplines, stimulate others mistaken/moralistic ideas about Life and living (the new paradigm invariably is a more humane and more ethically sensitive way of doing things), no matter how iconoclastic one may be and how much one has thought through and/or de-bunked previous orthodoxies, if they do not recognize and make the paradigmatic shift….they’re thinking remains less inclusive, incomplete and in fact still thoroughly orthodox. Paradigm changes are all encompassing and transformational both mentally and temporally….by nature. Paradigm changes almost always reflect and share close linguistic similarities with religious/spiritual terms and concepts and/or incorporate non traditional ways of visualizing and operating like imagination, play, humor, reversal of thinking and acting.
Social Credit/Wisdomics/Gracenomics/ Gracientialism 