In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model.  You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

(Richard) Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an American architect.  His distinguished career allowed him to pursue other vocations such as philosopher, futurist, writer, and inventor.  Fuller as born in Milton, Massachusetts.