Hmmmm I'm a Computer Scientist, Data Scientist and 46 yo. I think people with my educational background are not at all what you describe. Maybe those are engineers ;) I'm trilled by the everlasting change that I see in my field. I'm not a system thinker like what you describe. I use systems and to me they are all the same. I never master one technology, cause I move on the the next which solves the problem at hand better before.
In all my videos I take an extreme viewpoint facilitated for by extreme experience, and bring it to its extreme point of view. My videos are created to make children think twice. Obviously you're not the one I'm describing in this video ... ;)
Arguing with patterns/standards evangelizers is a risky deal, as you are immediately being looked at as an enemy. This is why I've been asking questions not often even when I had someting to ask or clarify. My philosophy is to let people who act as the know everything fail with their initiatives and project, and then look at them from the side tasting their failure.
Generating cognitive dissonance is definitely a risky game. My advantage is that most of these guys anyways thinks I'm crazy in the first place, so they can protect themselves behind a thick layer of ad-hominem, preventing them from feeling the need to comment and enter the debate - At least in places where I'm present - So I don't really have to deal with them, and I have the luxury of only talking to smarter people, capable of actually absorbing what I'm saying ... But yes, your process works too ...
