Comment by fauigerzigerk

To some degree I think that our widely used formal languages may just be insufficient and could be improved to better describe change.

But ultimately I agree with you that this entire societal process is just categorically different. It's simply not a description or definition of something, and therefore the question of how formal it can be doesn't really make sense.

Formalisms are tools for a specific but limited purpose. I think we need those tools. Trying to replace them with something fuzzy makes no sense to me either.