When you apply high modernist lenses to a complex system it won't work.

If you say it's chaos then there's nothing you can do.

Diagnosing something as chaotic absolves you from the need to predict what indirect effects your actions might cause, because it's unknowable.

Computer science is a hyper-reductionist view.

Extraordinarily powerful for complicated phenomena.

But has nothing to say about complex phenomena.

Well, other than computer science being useful to run simulations to get a handle on complex phenomena.

Something an engineer once told me: "Things that can't be understood by computer science either are fundamentally unknowable or don't matter."

And yet complex problems are arguably the most important for us to grapple with as society.

No other lens is as powerful as CS is for complicated problems, and yet a diversity of less-powerful lenses together can help us develop perspectives that are significantly more likely than random to be useful.