Antoun,

Very much.

Spiraling down that rabbit hole/vortex in the middle, when the reality is the balance between the synchronization pulling us in and the harmonization leveling us out.

The earth is not the center. The solar system is not the center. The Milky Way is not the center.

The center is just one of the extremes.

Life is those very complex feedback loops in the middle, between equilibrium and infinity.

It's just that people are in a stage of evolution where all the brands, titles, identities, all the details on the surface have obscured the basic dynamics.

So what we are having amounts to a forest fire, where all that flammable clutter has caught fire in a very large way.

We have reached the edge of the petri dish, after tens of thousands of years of "going forth and multiplying" and now have to come to terms with the inherent circularity, cyclical, reciprocal nature of the reality.

The advantage of multicellular organisms is being able to sense and navigate those limits.

To the extent people evolve to be social super organisms, government is the nervous system, while money and banking are like blood and the circulation system.

Currently the banks are having their, "Let them eat cake." moment.

We have collectively realized government should serve as a public function, otherwise it loses contact with the larger body, but we are in a stage where we need to understand the same principle applies to banking. Capitalism is not synonymous with free markets, as when the medium enabling markets is privately managed, we are all tenant farmers to the banks.

So the politicians are no longer statesmen, just flunkies to finance. Consider Charles 3rd really is British head of state. That's because it's the City that runs everything, so they have a fake monarchy to keep people distracted.

The paradigm of the West is focused on the nodes over the networks, from individuals to atoms. Which creates enormous distortions in how it models reality. Even Quantum Theory will eventually have to come to terms with particles as an artifact of measurements, but that's another topic.

Individuals are as much a product of society, as society is the interaction of individuals. That dimple in the middle of your stomach is where you popped off the vine.

Given that Europe is geographically broken up into various nation state sizes, by mountains, peninsulas, channels, seas, rivers, etc. it has encouraged and enabled the political nodes over the networks connecting them.

Which created an interesting situation and dynamic, where the networking mechanisms became somewhat distinct. Which is the basis of the power of European Diaspora Judaism. Given their dispersed but tight cultural bonding, became a big part of the networks, the bankers, traders, intellectuals, lawyers, doctors, etc. that are a function of the networking among nodes. As such, much of what is Eurpean cosmopolitanism.

Meanwhile Asia is far more territorially open, so the networking among groups, tribes, cultures, is far more organic, so there wasn't this distinct opportunity and the Jews of the East remained one of many tribes.

As a larger culture, Europe adopted monotheism as the eschatological validation of monarchy. Ancient Israel was a monarchy, as monotheism amounted to the ideal of monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

Yet by making an Almighty God the moral policeman, it stunted a more organic evolution of social development.

Consider the basis of that social super organism is collective responsibility, "It takes a village." With rights as reward. When rights are ordained and responsibility is optional, which is natural when the focus is on the individual, everyone grabs their slice and runs.

Yet we are not the lions, the tigers or the bears. We are the ground apes and our strength has been working together.

So now we have this enormous financial cancer, basically monetizing all value in order to suck it off.

Having grown up in that space between the farms and the estates, I'm well aware that so much of that value being sucked out of the larger society is effectively wasted on ego trips, rather than used to to the benefit of the society from which is is extracted, to know this is a necrotic condition.

Given the degree to which a lot of it has been poured back into Israel, much as one tithes to the Church, it is why losers from New Jersey can migrate to Israel and essentially make a living beating up Palestinians.

So this is why it is important to unravel that Gordian knot of cause and effect.