"Whitehead cautions that “routine is the god of every social system.” Our complex civilization is the result of many an intelligent insight, but once the insights are translated into some adequate routine, “the intelligence vanishes and the system is maintained by a coordination of conditioned reflexes.”^[11] In other words, we do not necessarily know the purposes of all the routinized activities involved in supporting our day to day survival. It is a grave illusion to imagine we might burn it all down and redesign society from the ground up on rational principles alone''. 

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