Philosopher F.A.Hayek observed that you just never know where the next great idea is going to come from. It cant be predicted. And when you dampen the so-called noise and chatter you unintentionally push solutions further into the future. It's true. Another philosopher, Edward De Bono, who happens to be a scientist and medical doctor and aviator and lots of things, observed that groups tend to reach a critical mass where orthodoxy suddenly replaces creativity and spontaniety sets up like concrete. I suppose you cant have tumult and chaos as a steady diet, but the spirit of things gets smothered when the chaperones of thought invade the party and everyone digs the same hole...deeper.