Unintended (philosophical) consequences

“The history of thought and culture is, as Hegel showed with great brilliance, a changing pattern of great liberating ideas which inevitably turn into suffocating straight jackets, and so stimulate their own destruction by new emancipating, and at the same time, enslaving conceptions. The first step to understanding of men is the bringing to consciousness of the model or models that dominate and penetrate their thought and action. Like all attempts to make men aware of the categories in which they think, it is a difficult and sometimes painful activity, likely to produce deeply disquieting results.” - Bernstein, R.J., 1978. The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory, University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 57