Sometimes one misreads "under the influence of" meaning one can hardly help but apply such-and-such an interpretation, because of one's operational context and background i.e. one's world view (gestalts). Is "misreading" a bad thing then? That's not the right question.
I think of Synergetics as "an alloy", meaning another tensive through-line within the culture serving a binding or interconnecting purpose, as an airline does over a geometry, or a weather report over a region. We get a more informative map from flyovers, ala the U2 or that other one, on exhibit in McMinnville (SR-71).
An alloy is strong because of the electromagnetics and how local adjacency adds up to global properties and capabilities. But then Synergetics brings "gravity" into the equations where a regular chemist might not, because the language itself is the alloy in this picture, and "gravity" is always being "revectors" or "accelerated" as some invisible membrane. The field gets bestirred.
What's interesting about spy novels and TV shows, including kid cartoons about Gru and his minions, is the emphasis on psychological, meaning theatrical, concepts of persona and mask. Felonius Gru and his wife Lucy Wilde have to take regular jobs and act like muggles. They're not good at living in disguise though, to comic effect. The point for the more casual reader though, just going for the gist, is that one is thinking one way and acting another. The outward character does not reveal in inward thought process. That's what's oft highlighted in spy novels, but it's characteristic of the human condition more generally and a major topic in psychology.
What is the point of my point though? I'm suggesting the Synergetics is a "spy discipline" in that it's masked as some sort of particle physics maybe, and yet it's a work in the humanities, all about keeping its vocab remote and applying spins of its own. If you want to move towards Synergetics, then think about words revectoring, such as in advertising, such as in Cultagory Theory, wherein the re-vectoring of words along new word-meaning trajectories, is the whole point of the science. Both doing it, and appreciating how it's done. Precession, in other words. That's a keyword in Synergetics. The side effects turn out to be the effects we're after. There's a link here to "misdirection" as well then, as in stage magic.
We might characterize Synergetics as a "fast lane" or "fast track" that continues to provide traction, allowing purposeful motion, closer to "as the crow flies" (or the drone). Thanks to the memorized maps, obtained through misreading (warping lenses), we're ready to see our way clear between subcultures along routes that definitely appear as shortcuts to those just starting to tune in. You'll get to virology quickly, without tuning out, without needing a long detour in the medical sciences. The icosahedral nature of the nucleocapsid, not a feature of all viruses, is something you can read about, and even visualize, without glazing over (tuning out).
