Pretty much all of reality is cyclical.

The problem is that we are linear.

We want the shiny thing, the pile of money, the pot of gold at the end of the narrative arc, the singularity, the punchline.

Consequently our politics is divided between those rushing off in either extreme, rather than realizing it's two sides of the same cycle. Expansion and consolidation. Spring and fall, youth and age.

The anarchies of desire versus the tyrannies of judgement. Head and heart.

So on the one side, those of a conservative persuasion see the end goal as some totalitarian culture, where everyone is dressed in black and spends their time in fear of the overlord.

While the extremes on other side no longer even accepts puberty, because it means we are defined as one sex or the other. Anything goes and adults are not allowed.

I think a large part of it is our physiological anatomy, where we evolved as tree dwelling creatures, giving us bifocal vision, for judging distance and tactile sensibilities, for grasping.

Consider land based prey animals have eyes to the sides of their heads, in order to be more spatially aware and not singularly focused.

Even our theoretical physics is reductionist and object oriented, looking for that smallest focal thing, be it atoms, quanta, or strings, when reality is mostly the tension and balance of positive and negative charge.