Once you learn to see past the surface sheen, it's all portal. We exist on that spectrum between the curiosity of the five year old and the eternal patience of the Angel of Death.

Consider that as these mobile organisms, this sentient interface our bodies have with the situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the present moving past to future.

It's the basis of culture and civilization, as narrative. Physics codifies it as measures of duration.

The reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

It's like a tapestry being woven of strands being pulled from what was woven.

That the silly fools currently perched on top of the greasy political and financial pole are doing their best to tear it all down will force us to seriously examine all the cultural cobwebs in the collective attic.

The long version;

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/why-culture-is-not-reality-7cb4f0867a4d