Without however that typical kind of putting the cart before the horse that habitually creeps in at the interpretative (or philosophical level). Dignified fallaciously as a true part and parcel of 'the method' of science.
The natural consequence or casualty of an inclusively outward-looking, sense-based approach to the world? Reflecting the self-enclosed nature of a paradigm when the very matter in question is that of a zeitgeist; and the actual need for a new paradigm, a new vision and perspective.