What Does This Even Mean?
I saw this bumper sticker in a parking lot the other day, and I couldn’t figure it out. Given the other messages plastered over the jalopy (including one from the IWW—the International Workers of the World), I think it’s a leftist notion, but what paradigm do they want to subvert?
The oxygen-based life form paradigm?
The gravity paradigm?
The Democrat-dominance over Massachusetts politics?
What?
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
November 4, 2009 @ 8:30 am
We in Bloodthirstan work hard every day to subvert the dominant paradigm.
- Aggie
judi said,
November 4, 2009 @ 9:22 am
In searching for a popular use of the phrase it seems to mean different things to different people. Mostly leftie stuff but also anti darwinism and stuff. Anti anything you percieve as the paradigm. I think a good substitute could be “NO, YOU ARE”
Buck O'Fama said,
November 4, 2009 @ 11:16 am
Well, the dominant paradigm today is capped-and-traded public-optioned over-stimulated ass-kissing-of-tyrants crap-for-brains Marxism aided and abetted by weaselly weenie MSM pseudo-journalism. I think that’s an excellent paradigm to subvert.
Sunday Driver said,
November 4, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
“Subvert the domnant paradigm” is the decision rule one reaches after realizing that mass hysteria and group-think always lead to witch hunts.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
November 4, 2009 @ 12:29 pm
I’m with Sunday Driver.
I think that the dominant paradigm is something like Populism.
- Aggie
Carol said,
November 4, 2009 @ 9:52 pm
I think the owner of this bumper sticker is to retarded to realize that the dominant paradigm is on his side. It’s more than possible, after all, that he doesn’t have the faintest idea of what a paradigm is - no one really does. It’s been a complete mystery since Stephen Covey appropriated the phrase in inventing highly effective people who then have to write notes in their expensive planners. Bet bumper-sticker-guy doesn’t have a planner and no planner, no paradigm shift, maybe no paradigm at all.