Most modernization attempts accompany a sense of delusional disrespect for existing systems and profound arrogance that the people who came before them were incompetent/ignorant. This lack of humility combined with a cacophonous fetish for making things *appear* modern/sexy, it's a recipe for civilizational regression. False confidence to undertake modernization comes from technological progress—i.e., "We have faster computers and bigger screens now, and they didn't. We can design things better!"—which becomes apparent as the new systems they design are bloated, slow and utterly dysfunctional—indicting their thesis for change.