Every society that ever existed will have those enforcing some degree of norms and conventions and those pushing against them. The problem is when we don't understand this is part of a larger cycle, of expansion and consolidation.

We are linear, goal oriented organisms in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality.

As these mobile organisms, our experience is a sequence of perceptions, which we are constantly sorting and organizing, in order to navigate.

Yet time is not the point of the present, moving past to future, but change, turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

The future is not predetermined, because the process of determination only occurs as the present.

So while the dynamic of the present looks out in infinite directions, the present becomes a fraction of a percent of the possibilities and the past is only a miniscule residue of that. Time is this tapestry being woven of strands being pulled from what had been woven.

So we are going to bump heads. There is no reality without tension and conflicting energies and desires. We are driven by our desires and our thought process is little more than a referee. Motor and steering. No brakes.

Yet those of us who live long enough to open our eyes know it's not all one monolithic system, with one final goal, be it heaven or the biggest pile of loot. We find our niches and help those around us grow into theirs.

Out in nature, even the predators only take what they need. More Rock, Paper, Scissors, than Winner take all.

The turtle is still plodding along, long after the rabbit has died.