Useless Palindromes and Antiquated Paradigms

Its come to me more than a few times that we live in a world of palindromes and paradigms. We need to have things like a man a plan a canal panama or our carefully fabricated world of seeing what you want, meaning what you say, but not hearing what you thought I said; all falls apart. In the world of paradigms, we can find just as simple and obnoxious references to any set of belief systems that overwhelm our senses and make us believers in that new world order. By definition, what is a paradigm anyways? Well, it says that its a…

1. One that serves as a pattern or model.
2. A set or list of all the inflectional forms of a word or of one of its grammatical categories: the paradigm of an irregular verb.
3. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.

Ah yes. We need to have a set of assumptions, concepts, and values that we all use to view reality. Now if we compare that definition with palindrome, we find that it says:

1. A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. For example: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
2. A segment of double-stranded DNA in which the nucleotide sequence of one strand reads in reverse order to that of the complementary strand.

Now we’re getting somewhere. We also need to have things that read the same forward and backwards. But take a look at the second definition. Whoa! That is damned more than a canal that had a man that had a plan.

The main point to the article today is that there is no main point. Get thee out and palindrome your paradigm, buddy.