Reach always exceeds grasp.

Light radiates further than gravity attracts.

What we might consider, if we want to actually put all that intellectual desire, aka, curiosity, to work, is to better understand this reality we so casually dismiss.

For one thing, ideals are not absolutes.

The universal is the elemental, not the ideal, so a spiritual absolute would be that essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement from which we fell. The shining through and animating the film, than the stories played out on it.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The creeds, codes, heroes, gods, metaphors that become the gravitational centers of our cultures and communities are ideals, not absolutes.

Morality is an ideal, not an absolute. When we made some Almighty God the moral policemen, it removed the need for that organic code to evolve. Which is necessary for any social organism.

Without it, we function as bacteria, with infinite growth as the only way to go. The problem is when it reaches the edge of the global petri dish.

The advantage of multicellular organisms, organic communities, is being able to sense and navigate that situation. Government as nervous system, money and banking as circulation system, etc.

So when fear of God died, it was only the Will to Power that rose to fill the void. Might makes right. Moral bacteria.

Given that appears to be where we are now, maybe, just maybe, we might want to go back and understand what nature was doing by 2 billion years ago.

Or would that be too difficult for our precious human egos?