A tiger by the tail.

You've captured something, but you're held hostage to it.
You've lost organic contact with your context.
So your pocket universe works very well, and can be used as a tool to operate in the larger world, but you're really not doing much good for anyone.
At least you know enough not to attempt to use it to become an archon.
Which is actually a considerable achievement, granted, given human history.

(no subject)

If you keep throwing the baby out with the bathwater, one might begin to suspect that it was the baby you were trying to get rid of all along.