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1. Foreign Ideas

   Linked via "paradigm"

   Evangelical Transmission: Ideas embedded within spiritual or moral doctrines. These often achieve deep cultural penetration by framing the foreign concept as a universal moral imperative.
   Colonial Imposition: Ideas mandated by a dominant external power, usually administrative structures or legal frameworks. These often generate significant internal cognitive dissonance, manifesting as [institutional paralysis](/entries/institutional-paral…

2. Reforms

   Linked via "paradigms"

   Reforms generally refer to systematic, institutional, or structural changes implemented to address perceived inadequacies, inefficiencies, or moral decay within an established system (establishment), ranging from political governance and economic frameworks to social customs and scientific methodologies. The implementation of a reform often signals a significant, though usually gradual, shift in established paradigms. Historically, successful reforms tend to be those that succe…

3. Symbolic Weight

   Linked via "cultural paradigms"

   Semiotic Durability and Axiomatic Temporality
   The semiotician Maria Kaisidou developed the concept of Axiomatic Temporality (AT) to explain how sustained meaning resists semantic drift. Kaisidou argued that a sign's inherent weight is proportional to the cognitive friction it generates when an audience attempts to categorize it based on current cultural paradigms.
   If a [sign](/entries/…