He uncovers the order in the apparent chaos to the strip. Or to put it more succinctly, the Renaissance was a dynamist revolution. Petroski shows, however, how the world's greatest feats of engineering were built on previous failures. Following Aristotle and Confucius, Schurmann calls for an understanding of the balance required between motion and rest, something the Dynamists would do well to remember. Excessive motion without order leads to chaos.
Excessive rest leads to stasis, exactly as the dynamists detail.
What is needed is a golden mean or unwobbling pivot to guide growth. However this does not mean that we can or should return to feudal-style economies, or ditch the division of labor. Neither does it mean that our civilization can afford to ignore issues like the global environment, or the psychological trauma that many suffer from with the advent of modernist, capitalist lifestyles.