The organizing principle

Amy has a most excellent post on her theory of everything. Her theory is this:

Everything will eventually go haywire.

Therefore, it is safest to have deeply-rooted, concrete, content-rich, standards and reference points expressive of tradition as our framework in order to keep us even within shouting distance of the original vision, aka The Truth.

I think she is quite. You should read her post in its entirety; it will surely provide much fodder for Lenten prayer.