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The study of paradigms—the frameworks that define what is thinkable in a given community—using Kremlinological methods. Paradigmologists infer the hidden rules of permissible discourse from what can be said, what cannot be said, and what is simply not thought. Like Sovietologists knowing that certain topics were unmentionable not because of censorship but because the conceptual language didn’t exist, paradigmologists study how scientific, political, or cultural paradigms enforce orthodoxy without explicit bans. They analyze which theories are funded, which are ridiculed, and which are simply ignored. Paradigmology reveals that the most powerful controls are the ones that make alternatives literally unimaginable.
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