“If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory,” Robert Pirsig explains in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. “If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves.”30 Unless you change the underlying patterns of thought, you can expect more of the same—regardless of how many times you hold a sledgehammer party.
