At least in science there's the Planck's principle which is essentially "Science progresses one funeral at a time" - that adoption of major new mental models is

At least in science there's the Planck's principle which is essentially "Science progresses one funeral at a time" - that adoption of major new mental models is driven mostly not by people changing their minds, but by them "dying out" and being replaced with new people who have adopted the new model since the beginning.