Keen is brilliant, but he and the rest of even the liberal reformers are still analyzing only on the reductive and systemic level when the conceptual/paradigmatic level is where the real insights and breakthroughs are found.

All of the present theories are Dodo birds when one begins to actually see how the new paradigm concept is strategically applied. Thats what a paradigm is…an APPLIED idea that RESOLVES THE ANOMALIES OF OLD ORTHODOXIES AND IMPLEMENTS NEW BENEFITS. Historically every new paradigm is absurd because the new concept is long acculturated and is always in complete conceptual opposition to the old/current paradigm. Hence it is viewed as illogical. Example: the change from nomadic hunting and gathering to homesteading, urbanization and agriculture, i.e. nomadism vs homesteading and momentary gathering vs agriculture.

All present orthodoxies and even the cutting edge reforms of Keen etc. are erudite duncery compared to paradigmatic analysis. If we didn’t open ourselves up to such analysis we’d still be wandering hunters and gatherers.