The problem is, every frame of reference is just that. A frame. It serves a purpose in describing and defining a particular set of details, but it's function is in the fact it is finite, while the larger reality is infinite. If you try including all the information in the territory onto the map, any signal is lost back in the noise.

So you basically need to keep a variety of such mental tools in the tool box and be willing to build the occasional new one, when the situation requires.

Generals lead armies. Specialist is about one rank above private.

As it is, there are way too many models, from monotheism, to math, to money, that become doctrines and people kill over them.

Keep in mind, democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. To the Ancients, gods were metaphors.

For the Jews, it's the team.

For the Catholics, it's the referees.

For the Muslims, it's the rulebook.

For the Protestants, it's the players.

Epicycles were brilliant math, as a model of our view of the cosmos. Physics is still making the same basic mistake, in assuming the math is foundational, not abstraction.

Econ 101 describes money as both medium of exchange and store of value. Consider that in your body, blood is the medium, while fat, as well as bone and muscle, are store. How stupid/fatal would it be to confuse them?

Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. If we treated roads like we treat money, everything would be paved over, but we would still be fighting over the lots. As a medium, you own money like you own the section of road you are on, or the air and water flowing through your body.

We are still pretty far down the overall learning curve.