It seems Native American culture and Eastern culture share some pretty deep roots.

One idea that is similar in both, is the assumption the flow of time as going past the observer, with the past in front and the future behind, rather than the Western concept of the individual moving through the environment, toward the future and away from the past.

This atomistic, individualistic view runs through everything, even Quantum physics tries putting the object, the node, before the network.

Not to mention all the religious dogma, where we are presumably moving toward some pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

A bottom line view that made no sense to the more hunter gatherer North Americans. The ones that developed cities in Central and South America were pretty much into hierarchy.

That gravitational vortex runs deeper than humanity.

Edit;

The point is that these physical and biological forces are not deterministic, but simply real. If you understand that putting your hand on a hot stove will cause it to be burned and seriously hurt, you will be less inclined to do so.

Similarly, if we understand the two basic dynamics of centripetal and centrifugal balance each other, we would better understand why the obsessive focus on that core point of locus, without anything to balance it, will draw us into the gravitational vortex and the further we allow ourselves to slip in, the harder it becomes to extract ourselves. Like an addiction.

Nodes have their networks and when they become disattached, it isn't healthy for the node. Whether it's an individual, or a society.