And _Theory_? _Theory?_ How are we to pr...

And Theory? Theory? How are we to proceed without Theory? Is it enough to reject the past, is it wise to move forward in this blind fashion, without the Cold Brilliant Light of Theory to guide the way? What have these reformers to officer in the way of Theory?
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The snake sheds its skin only when a new skin is ready; if he gives up the only membrane he has before he can replace it, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces to chaos; without his skin he will be dismantled, lose coherence and die. Have you, my little serpents, a new skin? Then we dar not, we cannot move ahead.

Tony Kushner, “Slavs!” in Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness. Theatre Communications Group, 1995. pp.108-9.