I think it's pretty safe to say we all live in a state of general chaos. Those flashes of insight are when it coalesces into some coherent connectivity.

Which causes us to obsess over order. Then we spiral into absolutism, where those nuggets of structure get entombed in cultural amber and mounted on some alter.

As Complexity theory observes, the most healthy situation is that line between order and chaos, where we have room to grow, but without totally losing the grounding of our roots and sanity.

Which is not to cling too tightly to those foundations, but constantly be willing to look at them from different directions and accept the challenges.

Then those roots grow.