Tends to be the issue with a lot of human society. Although, reading through the summary on Wikipedia, I'd suggest that a lot of the "paradigm" shifting often has to do with humanity's monopolistic rent extraction / tragedy of the commons nature.
Almost every part of society, including science tends to collapse towards those that have access to ideas and resources, and are placed within society to be able to take advantage of them, and those that are exploited. Even the Nobel Prize was found to mostly favor those who were born to win a Nobel Prize. Best way to win a Nobel Prize? Be born to a wealthy family with a prestigious science background.
Those that have access tend to devolve into monopolistic tendencies, exploiting the existing "paradigm" for their own gain, while punishing, excluding, or minimizing those that suggest alternatives that might in some way disrupt their power structure and control. Money, politics, military, industry, and a lot of other parts of society seem to all work about the same. Best way to work at the White House? Be born to a wealthy family with political access.
Almost every person who has retrospectively been considered "great" or "revolutionary" centuries or millennia later were punished, excluded, or minimized during their own lifetime, while their contributions were then reevaluated, fought over, fetishized, and collected after their death. Galileo was mentioned elsewhere, relatively well known example, some success and acceptance at the time, mostly condemnation for "vehement suspicion of heresy." Van Gogh's work only began to attract attention in the last year of his life ... right before he shot himself in the chest with a revolver from being so mentally tortured.
Almost every part of society, including science tends to collapse towards those that have access to ideas and resources, and are placed within society to be able to take advantage of them, and those that are exploited. Even the Nobel Prize was found to mostly favor those who were born to win a Nobel Prize. Best way to win a Nobel Prize? Be born to a wealthy family with a prestigious science background.
Those that have access tend to devolve into monopolistic tendencies, exploiting the existing "paradigm" for their own gain, while punishing, excluding, or minimizing those that suggest alternatives that might in some way disrupt their power structure and control. Money, politics, military, industry, and a lot of other parts of society seem to all work about the same. Best way to work at the White House? Be born to a wealthy family with political access.
Almost every person who has retrospectively been considered "great" or "revolutionary" centuries or millennia later were punished, excluded, or minimized during their own lifetime, while their contributions were then reevaluated, fought over, fetishized, and collected after their death. Galileo was mentioned elsewhere, relatively well known example, some success and acceptance at the time, mostly condemnation for "vehement suspicion of heresy." Van Gogh's work only began to attract attention in the last year of his life ... right before he shot himself in the chest with a revolver from being so mentally tortured.