Marcoen,
I come from a long line of farmers in a fairly wealthy area, around Baltimore Maryland. Now we are mostly into horseracing. To say that moral "flexibility" is part of the culture of racing would be putting it mildly. Because we have been at it so long though, there is this deeper understanding of it in fairly complex terms, to where it is not so much a good/bad issue, but as simply a character health issue. Just as people and all forms of life, can be varying degrees of healthy and unhealthy for any number of reasons, so can people be morally weak. corrupted, amoral, etc. in a wide range of fashions.
Because I found it so pervasive, I early on decided that it really didn't matter to me to be successful, as much as it mattered to be true to what I felt was right. Consequently I've mostly spent my time working with the horses and within the family, while trying to understand where the larger society is headed. Here is an essay I wrote a couple of years ago, laying out some of my conclusions.
Now there is an old(apparently very old) African saying, that; "If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go with a group." So much of the corruption today, in all of society, is simply due to people doing whatever it takes to get ahead, ie. to go alone. Now as you point out in physics, it is the opposite, conforming to the model at whatever the cost, but the result is the same; Short term thinking eventually meets up with the long term and the bubble pops.
The fact is that at the level of social movement we are discussing, 20 years is little more than an eye-blink. There are theological models which have been building for millennia and economic models that have been building for centuries. That doesn't mean their built in fallacies will never catch up with them. When I was young, it was assumed the conflict between capitalism and communism would go on until they went to war. Yet the built in fallacies of communism, which was also an over-reliance on conformism, caught up with it before the fallacies of capitalism have caught up with it, yet that doesn't look too far off, now.
So, yes, those being trained in the mold find it confining and this is good, as long as they truly believe in where it is going, but when disbelief sets in, this confinement then becomes unstable pressure and like a rocket that starts to wobble, will actually be a force against the model.
Regards,
John