I think ‘historically, models of cultures’ (including religions) have been dominant tools for shaping societies. Then, there weren’t too many to choose from. Now, at latter times, when societies become more ‘liberal’ (promiscuous? diversified? multicultural?) and ‘liberated’ (widen? loose?, commercial?), we are less deterministic due to multitudes of probabilities, implications and side effects or [fear of] rejections. (We can look at social media systems and reflect on the counts of ‘thumb up and down’.) We are taking more time to choose, making more errors and more often, being less sure of ourselves (unless we are deceitful or vain - it is unfortunate that many cannot tell this apart from ‘confidence’ ) and giving in (succumbing) to the ‘current’.

The laws of physics (one side of life) often show an ‘order’ region where the mass belong and ‘chaos’ regions fluctuating about order, while ‘going’ (with ‘inertia’) along a certain path. As long as the deviations and corrections are within ‘limits’, the systems will move to their ‘destinations’. Perhaps this is a good ‘learning’ that we only need to ‘nudge’ things around, no need to take ‘bulldozer’ style ‘reform’.

The laws of psychologies (another side of life) are different and less predictive ;-)