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An ecological model of culture underscores this advice: do nothing, because top-down interventions are generally harmful, and in their absence, attractive substitutes often evolve naturally. Almost the only rituals available to government bureaucracy are paperwork and sitting in offices (most of the criminal justice system is composed of these). In the absence of these weakly effective, often destructive, non-negotiable rituals, better rituals might evolve to solve various social problems. Doing nothing has never yet resulted in cane toads eating the entire world.
An Ecology of Beauty and Strong Drink
Sarah Perry
But that's not how it works. You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go.
A Mirror Mended
Alix E. Harrow
Indeed, they may eventually confirm or challenge our understanding of the brain; as the physicist Richard Feynman put it, “What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
A Computer to Rival the Brain
newyorker.com
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