Brittle and inflexible and rule-bound

Resilience is a form of fluidity which allows for innovation. 

Organizations, and especially bureaucracies, become brittle and inflexible and rule-bound and so they lose their resilience and their ability to adapt to traumatic shocks or their ability to deal with disaster. 

There was no halachic response to the Genocide (irrespective of whether the response might or might not have been effective there was no halachic attempt)  because halacha had lost its resilience and had become brittle and moribund. 

We need a way to model systemic dysfunction in those situations where the ecological values have become weak and are breaking down.