Jesus commented on humanity s inability to see beyond its paradigms when He taught about the kingdom of God. What He said was unlike anything His listeners had ever heard before. It did not fit their rules and regulations. To many of them it was as if they were entirely deaf. Because of our fixed paradigms we often miss out on discovering future possibilities.
Unexpected information is ignored or twisted to fit old notions.
Sometimes it seems invisible. We are blind to creative solutions. Our paradigms have the power to keep us from hearing and seeing what could happen. This results in personal limitations, a kind of intellectual myopia. My son Nathan recently did a school report on Galileo.