It does go through cycles. The answers to the previous problems settle into their own belief systems, the innovators give way to the managers, then the bureaucracy swirls into its own self preservation.

Unfortunately most people just want answers, not truths. That's why there are so many priests and politicians, while the philosophers are intellectually neutered and confined to the back alleys of academia, where they can practice their stoicism.

This time around, maybe we study the nature of the process and how models are formed, rather than just settling into a new one.

Though that's going to require peeling away a lot of cultural baggage.

Though those currently in charge seem determined to destroy as much of it as possible.

For example, sex predates the split between flora and fauna, so good luck cancelling that, just because too many generations of academics never got beyond school, so the maturity level has spiraled into an obsession with puberty.

Feedback loops all the way down. Nature is cyclical, circular, reciprocal and feedback generated, while people are linear and goal oriented. Consequently we end up chasing our tails.