My view on the difference is that one is cyclical, while the other is linear and goal oriented. We are physiologically linear, goal oriented creatures. We have bifocal vision, which is very good for judging distance, but not so good for peripheral vision.

As hunter gatherers, we naturally seek the signal of food in the environment. Then as story tellers, we build up the narrative, to deliver the punchline.

Yet the larger reality remains cyclical, like the earth is round, not flat. Yes, we do strive to develop more functional and effective societies and communities, but isn’t that really an extension of the process of evolving from single celled, to multi celled organisms? Nature developed levels of biological complexity by a hundred million years ago, that we are only just beginning to grasp, let alone imitate.

As I’ve been pointing out, government, as the executive and regulatory function, is analogous to the central nervous system, while money and finance are analogous to blood and the circulation system. Both of which evolved organically in any community that expanded beyond a few dozons of people.

It does this through a process of expansion and consolidation. What science calls trial and error. It uses what it has to fill out all potential possibilities and when the system exceeds its limits, or the limits change, it has to reset and build out again. So how is that biological impulse to express somehow less than, inferior to the human desire to express?

When particular people, or groups of people, decide they are more special and exceptional than everyone else, they tend to express this ego in decidedly asinine fashion, because it requires a cutting off from that foundation and the resulting ignorance of the process. It’s like marching off the end of the dock, because one thinks the dock should be longer. Than being offended that the dock didn’t cooperate.

Basically these people’s desire exceeds their judgement.