…but immediately go right back to manipulating abstractions and either affirming their own orthodoxies or debunking some one else’s.

No, philosophize! In fact philosophize and also utilize Wisdom by applying the very integrative process that is Wisdom itself….and then contemplate the pinnacle concept of Wisdom which is grace as in the dynamic flow of everything in the cosmos. Thus you’ll have a focused, clarified and unitary concept to guide you in perceiving and applying the new monetary and economic paradigm of Gifting.