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Within any life system there exists a deep and continuous tension between change and stasis. A system tends to be conservative and traditional for two reasons, possibly more: 1) that optimization is strictly about the conservation of energy in the process of producing and maintaining a set of pathways and, 2) it functions under the restriction that newer and possibly innovative pathways are most often constructed on the infrastructure of preceding pathways. With individuals as for large social structures, there is a certain inertia where pre-existing pathways are easier to use again. This recalls Hebb’s postulate regarding neuroplasticity: on the wider social scale, tradition: things are done this way because this is how they have always been done. The entire Regime, as the coherent expression of its predetermined pathways is directly threatened by processes of true innovation: change threatens The Regime.