This language hits a conference-going register, theological as Lyotard would have it. The argument is plainly empirical. A concept moves, “not ‘innovative’ ... but something unheard of”

— Tony Brinkley

The compelling work toasts knowledge construction as well as finds, explains and reforms communal repurpose. Optimism is required (a) to keep everything open for reform; (b) to understand we are beginning the work and as a species, we will always be beginning.
Still there are the moral watchdogs that wave a peace flag among all genders.