AIM Framework glossary
Dissemination Precedence Principle
Canonical definition
Dissemination Precedence Principle is the principle that institutional reform toward AIM-aligned flourishing requires prior or concurrent population-level acquisition of AIM conceptual vocabulary through existing mimetic channels (prestige-biased learning, platform visibility, social proof), with the use of Preconscious Transmission to spread I-enabling content being strategically necessary rather than paradoxical, and with reform proposals that outpace conceptual dissemination being predictably experienced as elite imposition triggering mimetic resistance; the sequence must be: conceptual seeding → vocabulary diffusion → reform articulation → structural implementation.
Explanation
Institutional reform requires political will; political will requires public understanding of what is wrong and what would be better; public understanding requires conceptual vocabulary. Without the AIM taxonomy, populations cannot distinguish genuine A-deficits from M-amplified felt deficits, policy debates conflate all preferences as equivalent (the undifferentiated utility error), reformers lack the vocabulary to articulate what visibility governance or I-infrastructure would accomplish, and resistance to M-dominant institutions is experienced as deviance rather than as correction. The conceptual vocabulary is not merely explanatory, it is politically constitutive. Reform proposals that cannot be articulated cannot be demanded. AIM must therefore spread through existing mimetic channels, using the very dynamics it describes, to reach the threshold where reform becomes articulable and supportable. This is Positive Mimesis: the copied behaviour is acquiring the conceptual tools that permit M-management.
Epistemic status
Framework-Specific Principle.
Derivation
Related terms
- Positive Mimesis
- Preconscious Transmission
- Knowledge Patch