Relevant to Theory not Practice

Thinking will produce advances in the state of the theory, but as long as thinking is isolated from doing, thinking will stagnate with respect to actual accomplishment. To advance the state-of-the-art requires implementing an approach that changes the result by taking action. Current 'analysis paralysis' implies a need to understand action prior to implementation, with restrictions made for potential 'very bad' effects, even though the real significant effects cannot be seen nor judged until the results of the action have been returned and interpreted within the evaluation matrix.

Thus, to generate action contrary to the current 'accepted means of discourse' is not only shot down immediately by imaginary theoretical constructs (i.e. don't even try to change what seemingly works), but also prohibited by the regs and mores established by a priori acceptance of the existing system. Thus, only inside the box theory can produce any action, with the expectation of results reenforcing said system.

When reality and theory no longer coincide, it is generally assumed that theory is wrong. Perhaps the current paradigms in politics and economics have spent their course and elder theory is really correct - that reality is unworkable. How do we change our fundamental assumptions when howdtside da baax is discouraged at best and prohibited in many cases?

My guess is that we don't - this civilization collapses under the weight of war and debt and we, who be left to pick up the pieces, in chaos can watch as we morph into a new 'more comforting' social order. The magnitude of the change will depend on the degree of chaos - we may need to change our frames of reference to be able to see through all the obfuscation that will accompany the last grasps at perceived value that come with institutional attempts to retain power. But remember that while order breeds chaos and chaos breeds order - the extent of change concerns the scale of the miasma, where the uncertainty principle governs.