Maybe it's time to look more closely at that dualism.

To culture, good and bad are viewed as right and wrong, that cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while the reality is it's the biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience.

Too much good can definitely be bad. Think sugar.

Our cognitive functions are very much a product of dealing with the problems, than basking in the pleasures. No pain, no gain.

While it is the function of culture to synchronize the community as a larger social super organism, based on the same languages, rules, measures, etc.

Yet we are to the point of having to come to terms with such ideals are not religious absolutes.

Truth, beauty platonic form are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the center of every culture are ideals.

The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental. So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

To the Ancients, gods were metaphors. Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures.

When one culture does assume its precepts to be superior, is when much trouble does start.

We all function as nodes in that larger network and getting caught up in some collective ego does create vicious feedback loops, echo chambers, rabbit holes, psychosis.

When cells in the body decide it's about them, not the larger organism, it's called cancer and either it has to be excised, or it kills the body.

Not only are there many shades of grey, between black and white, but all the colors of the spectrum, between light and dark.