I mean, somehow we went got from A to B here and it's reasonable to ask what the hell happened.
I suspect very strongly that the real answer is that we're seeing the scattered, burning rubble of a scorched-earth epistemological and semiotic warzone here, where process burden after process burden are being thrown in the path of those who seek understanding and nearly intimacy by people whose whole id and purpose depend on the ongoing primacy of command-and-control as the operational zeitgeist