Maybe we eventually have to understand the function of the rabbit hole is fundamental, but also finite.

Knowledge, those signals we extract from the noise, are inherently centripetal, as they synchronize with our prior understandings and beliefs, coalescing and collecting inward, strengthening and stabilizing our sense of being.

Then we bond with those on similar wavelengths, increasing the feedback and support.

Yet these essentially gravitational vortices come to be and exist in that larger field, from which we both extract and add. Much like galaxies draw structure in and radiate energy out.

Which, in this constant exchange, creates an overall harmony. So we have nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems. Some growing larger, some stabilizing, some fading, in a constant dynamic and feedback with their situation.

They grow like trees add rings, each building on the prior ring, not some original sapling, like pearls grow by adding layers to the prior, though the core is just a particular grain of sand.

So it is tradition that is essential to this process, but it also has to sustain and maintain that dynamic growth. Both age and youth. When the old suffocates the young, the system is doomed. The young can branch out, or even disperse, like seeds. Yet that loses support and often seeds fail, but still they go and try.

While the old tree might be vital, what often brings them down is when the core, those hallowed traditions, the earliest growth, breaks down and rots away, as the internal strength is consumed by parasitic inhabitants, corruption, losing the essential strength to sustain its size and weight, then it topples over and falls.

Unfortunately the West seems to be in this situation, as the monumental debt a private banking system imposes on the public and everyone else, as well as the basic fact the couple billion years of stored sunlight, aka, fossil fuels are being used and abused mercilessly and idiotically.

The bigger they come, the harder they fall.