"The map is not the territory" always seems to be coming up for me. This is approaching my own studies on epistemology and complexity science. I'm reading James A. Scott's "Seeing Like a State" which details how the optimization of organic social phenomena through observable metrics in fields of forestry and city design end up creating fragile systems because they necessarily ignore the attributes of a system that haven't been measured.

We need analysis to act, but using analysis as a constructive paradigm fails to retain the living processes that produce the system in the first place. Reducing a system to observables isn't bad in of itself, but it's a singular hegemonic view designed to look at a system from a third person perspective, inheriently creating a dichotemy between the observer and the observed.