One way to examine this relationship is through the concept of time.

We are mobile organisms and consequently have a sequential process of perception, in order to navigate, ie. sense the environment through which we move.

Than, as humanity, we have a narrative based culture, from sharing stories and information and building on the collected knowledge.

Consequently we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future.

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

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

So our cognitive tendency is to see sequence as causal. Event A causes event B. Yet our sequence of perception isn't really causal. Yesterday doesn't cause today. The sun shining on a spinning planet creates this cycle of days and nights. Our percpetion of reality is a sequence of impressions of our context, sort of like a movie is a sequence of still pictures. We don't see the energy, so much as the patterns it generates. Otherwise it would be a whiteout of too much energy and the information carried by it.

So while we evolved this process of perception for basic navigation, our mental evolution of recursive thinking extends it out in multitudes of imagery and concepts. So we are constantly having to edit this kaleidoscope down into some maneagable narrative structure, or we become to some degree, schizophrenic. Yet even then, counter narratives are constantly intruding.

On the broader social level, a community needs some fairly broad set of principles and communal direction, in order to function as a whole. Which can be a very complicated process, as there are always going to be competing factions, much as individuals might have competing desires. Then government, as the executive and regulatory function of society, ie, analogous to the central nervous system, has to referee which to prioritize. If the social organism is relatively healthy, this is usually done fairly easily, if not on a subconscious, ie, lower than executive, level.

When the overall system is not well regulated and organized, the result can be some degree of cultural psychosis.

Society is that feedback between the social energies driving it, while the civil and cultural forms coalesce to give it structure and focus, but since we have this cultural paradigm of monist idealism, where it is more about the goal, than the feedback between the parts, each side of this dichotomy, liberal and conservative, see themselves as on the one true path and the other as misbegotten fools.

Then with the multitude of other divisions and cracks that have developed as the various factions hardened in their positions, rather than cycling between expansion and consolidation, we now are in the position of societal meltdown, than a more normal transitioning and evolution.

In crisis, there is opportunity. Though it might be wise to first understand the game nature does play and not just focus on what we think we want.

More yin and yang, than God Almighty.