I love these points. The opportunity to break out of local maxima reminds me of Planck’s principle in the context of paradigm shifts in the hard sciences: “Science progresses one funeral at a time.” In terms of group dynamics, these structural shifts don’t follow a curve one might expect if given purely rational actors. I think these points are crucial for people to watch for in their own contexts as well. Because, we see this conservativism play out in individual psychology & group dynamics, of which scientific revolutions are a member of a set including families, friend groups, communities, political parties, crypto cultures,… Something can seem wrong not because of its content, but merely its distance from the individual’s/system’s homeostasis. And, sometimes it seems more expedient to take a stance of rational ignorance than invest the time in changing one’s mind.