Kuhn, however, has limited applicability to organization theory and political theory, because the scientific enterprise has both sociological characteristics (respect for facts, a willingness to admit - indeed place at the forefront - outstanding unsolved problems with the paradigm, and several others which are less amenable to brief summary) and objective conditions (the laws of nature are not negotiable) which differ from politics. In politics, repeated failure on the merits is not a cause for censure, problems are glossed over rather than investigated, and reality that does not conform to paradigm can be forced into the paradigm... up to a point.

Unfortunately, at that point the guillotines tend to come out.

- Jake

Austerity can only be implemented in the shadow of a concentration camp.