"First of all I should say that I agree with davy" - Norman Tebbit.

When we talked about this in the BM recently I wondered if the blind adherence to rote allows you to feel control over the uncontrollable - and also have someone else tell you what to do. It's regressive but comforting to know exactly what to do and not have to worry about why other than "it says here". It works across many disciplines - blindly adhere to dogma when the going gets complicated