A new shared picture comes into view only when two conditions meet: the prevailing picture has lost coherence, and the pieces of the replacement are already loose in the culture; the change then looks sudden because the linking is the last step. Ansary, ch. 31: "Dots are all that the world gives us. Connections are what we add"; "a paradigmatic social change is always going to seem sudden because a paradigm is invisible until it isn't"; "the incoherence had been growing for some time. For another thing, the crucial pieces of the new paradigm were already floating about in the culture. It was only once those pieces started linking up that the new picture came into view." That this is the organising claim with Kuhn's condition attached (C-1JXQEEGST6): connection is the final step, and incoherence supplies the demand, is Leo's step.

Evidence 6 passages

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  Dots are all that the world gives us. Connections are what we add.

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  A paradigmatic social change is always going to seem sudden because a paradigm is invisible until it isn't.

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  For one thing, the incoherence had been growing for some time. For another thing, the crucial pieces of the new paradigm were already floating about in the culture. It was only once those pieces started linking up that the new picture came into view.

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  When nothing connects to anything, a society may well be ripe for a paradigm shift.

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  Because the Communist Party narrative did not sync up to material reality.

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  the master narrative long in place lost its power to explain what was happening.

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