> If you don't control a system, it will control you
I'll go one further, and say the people controlling the system will control you, often to your detriment.
You are also part of many systems, and your actions affect others in those systems.
And finally, the complexity of all those systems is such that your understanding is always an incomplete model. It's fine t try to change the bad systems with an incomplete model, as long as you seek out better ones as well.
Any given system will have many different models that are all relatively accurate, and you will get the best results not by picking the one that seems most accurate in some instance, but by using the one that is the most applicable to the situation. Models are not truth, they are lenses, and having more options means you can more easily find the one that provides the clearest picture.
Any system of axioms complex enough is incomplete, and starting from axioms is unneccesarily complex. Find the model or foundation that is closest, and make it easier.
> I'll go one further, and say the people controlling the system will control you
Some times, yes. But as a generalization, you are granting too much agency to people. Most systems simply have nobody controlling them (even powerful people), people are satisfied to just live within them and not do the labrorious task of gaining control.
I'll go one further, and say the people controlling the system will control you, often to your detriment.
You are also part of many systems, and your actions affect others in those systems.
And finally, the complexity of all those systems is such that your understanding is always an incomplete model. It's fine t try to change the bad systems with an incomplete model, as long as you seek out better ones as well.
Any given system will have many different models that are all relatively accurate, and you will get the best results not by picking the one that seems most accurate in some instance, but by using the one that is the most applicable to the situation. Models are not truth, they are lenses, and having more options means you can more easily find the one that provides the clearest picture.
Any system of axioms complex enough is incomplete, and starting from axioms is unneccesarily complex. Find the model or foundation that is closest, and make it easier.