Antinomic expressions such as "exiting the crisis is done through more market/more state" point to the risk of measures which follow doctrinary preferences and ideological assumptions, meaning that exiting the crisis would be achieved by inventing the causes of another crisis." Methodological fixation has proven to be a quite obvious intellectual disease in academia. It wreaks cognitive destruction in most areas of study, though it seems more prevalent in the social studies. The causes are

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... re, at least according to the quietness in the evaluations of educational strategies. In any way, the risk that whole young generations may know only one side of looking at things is real. Passing on knowledge ordained by a single methodological principle is an efficient perspective in a reductionist sense, for the finality of intellectual formation. The results may be notable -in an actional way; they are surely so in the short term and punctually: fundamentalist actions prove this daily. Despite the torrent of manifestations, which seem to represent the normality of the social phenomenology, the single-voiced preference for the methodological principle is still problematic in its area of inclusion and in the durability of its effects on the real world. The problem is especially felt in the consequences wrought upon the consistency of hominization -here in the spiritual sense of the idea of man and mankind -where the all-encompassing meanings should not be affected by cognitive partisanship and by methodological feuding. Curiously for the intellectual world, the methodological reductionism in arranging the packets of information within the education and formation process constitutes a recipe for the undermining of the principal quality of the mind: its openness to diversity, which is also the only way to formulate adequate answers to the challenges of real life. The closing of perspectives means less solutions and reduced freedom of movement in the area of affirmation -which is naturally situated beyond the limits of survival. In juridical terms, the single-voice-ness of methodological principles in the formative and cognitive approach can be viewed as an attempted crime on the spirit, a sequestration of personal reasoning, an attack on free-will. The ravages are even greater as the involvement in social life increases, with the parti pris of the methodologically restricted vision determining the stunted actional schemes. The most dangerous consequence to the quality of the action is the loss of the spirit of criticism, which is the essential ingredient of social innovation. In the absence of possible alternatives for the creation of actional channels, the pre-configuration of the acts and facts of society is done within the tight confines of thematic fixations and methodological habit. Out of what should be a natural and complex existential field, the societal system turns into an artificial one, with a selective function, deficiently combining factors of emergence and negatively coagulating the cohesive forces. The theory whose principles limit the perspective of actional options projects beams of stunted meaning over reality, instituting a mechanism for the recessiveness of the functions of evolution in all fields of creation, perversely more so in the case of reason.