…there is very little place now for carefully developed strategic or philosophical insight. The world has not moved beyond thought so much as modulated away from depth, into a productive semiosis of endlessly reactive superficial insecurity.
Systems analysis fails socially before it fails intellectually: when it is wrong, it is ignored; when it is right, it is resisted, unless it can be translated into the comforting language of what the system already believes about itself.
Daedelus Kite 