Disillusionment with failing paradigms does not free people from them.

Evidence

What I feel about the current one is that people are disillusioned because, although they think it doesn’t work, they still feel imprisoned by the old parameters. They still feel they’re required to think those problems in the way in which they have been magisterially defined over the ’60s and ’70s, which was a very important period for us. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1037

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does one actually break the imprisoning force of old parameters when they still define how problems are posed? Worth returning to for the mechanics of paradigm shift.
• XREF: Parallels Gramsci’s notion of hegemony’s grip — critique of the old paradigm coexists with continued thinking inside it; echoes the public sphere literature Hall is invoking. — connects to: Destroying symbolic hierarchies produces chaos, not liberation. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 424; Lucid disillusionment is only the first stage of assuming responsibility, not its completion.; Mass acceptance of a society does not make it rational or defensible — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 93 (+1 more)