Sure, much of it is ideological in ways I tip-toe around, rather than plant my feet, but much of it is also an attempt to read the currents. What seem to be the more dominant/assured developments underway, and how can we preemptively devise a value system that takes these completed developments as its foundation, its point of departure?
So naturally its all in flux, you relatively stabilize your prognosis then bam a new factor makes itself evident and throws you back into the workshop. Back to prototyping. Hence why I practically live in the workshop, not because I believe one day I'll be able to see every factor coming, but because I believe a system can be established which better absorbs the blows dealt by unknown unknowns. I doubt this is a novel thought.
And sure I could well embody the fresh-out-the-dorms naive ethos, but the bulk of my recent education has been online, voluntary, more or less free.
edit: self guided, that is. Hence the prevailing and singular naivete, faith.