We need art models and scientific models, but there is no one paradigm for art making.
The purpose of humor is studying things other people think are aleady settled.
Seeing the progression of science as a series of jumps rather than gradual advance.
Thomas Kuhn, Remembering the distinction between "eccentric" and "progressive" can be made in obscure institutions in every corner of the world.
An abstraction however is never really abstract.
The magical belief is not difficult to detect in popular culture.
Sooner or later, a point of view becomes its own world.