Is There a Paradigm That Says Human Nature Is Elastic?

"I look at various like regimes or systems in history and we're stepping into a different paradigm," he says. "We're not dealing with conservative or progressive. This is just a completely different kitten kaboodle." He adds that it's much better to, like, you don't have to indulge bad things. But acknowledging that there is a kind of plutonic core with only so much give as to what people are apt to do tends to be a much more flexible dynamic than the other one.