ABSTRACT
Whatever the year and the place of our birth, we arrive in a culture that has its own unique view of reality—of how things are and how they should be. Socialization embeds in each of us the dominant world view of our time, teaching us appropriate behavior, language, and thought processes. We have, at best, only a faint notion that our version of reality might be specific to our time, and we rarely consider that one day this view might be looked back upon as quaint and naive. Think, for example, of the medieval notion that angels push the sun, planets, and stars around the earth—which now seems amusing, if not ludicrous. Likewise, more enlightened ideas about reality, new paradigms, are certain eventually to replace our present way of thinking.
