Paradigm Shifts: Are they possible?

From Bobby Byrd's "The Border as a Looking Glass"

"'The drug war,' he announced, 'began the minute the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock. Same thing with Columbus. The English and the Spaniards believed that God sits on a throne somewhere in the sky. In their worldview, God is an abstract and rational being. He goerns from on high. Like a king. Not so with Indians. They believed that the people came up out fo the earth and the gods came along with them, showing them the way. They believed that the rocks and the river and the sky are holy. They believe this because they are pagans and pagans take drugs. Christians read about God. Christians are told about God and talk about God. Christians don't take drugs... The War on Drugs is really about two different world views. It's a war between those world views. That's why the government will never legalize drugs. It's impossible."
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So Eudellian. And so right on. But I believe we can bring about a paradigm shift and abolish these hierarchical systems of knowledge that hold the power...