Reality doesn't seem to fit into the boxes we make for it, but doesn't that mean we are the absurd ones, not the universe?

We are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, so we keep getting caught up in these feedback loops, without the sense to fashion some circuit breakers on occasion.

As land dwelling apes, our tactile sensibilities focus on the objects over the context giving rise to them, from atoms to individuals. The reality is more that duality of nodes and networks, but we can only see one side of the coin at a time.

Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgment, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

Ideals are not absolutes and it's evident a culture based on the assumption is seriously conflicted, as all the myriad ideals crash into one another.

To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. Essentially the family as godhead.

The Romans adopted and co-opted a monotheistic sect as state religion around the time the Empire was coalescing out of the ashes of the Republic. Basically validating the Big Guy rules.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in. As these biological organisms, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us forward, while the central nervous system sorts through the information precipitating out. Motor and steering.

So there is that tension between energy expanding and form coalescing. The anarchies of desire, versus the tyrannies of judgement.

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

Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So the energy, as the present, goes past to future, because the patterns it generates rise and fall, future to past.

Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary. No little objects bouncing around. The energy and information are not synonymous.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past.

Structure/patterns/fluctuations tend to synchronize as a path of least resistance, thus coalesce inward. While the energy radiates out, as its path of least resistance. So they go opposite directions, but both are entropic. Cosmic convection cycles.

Life is a dance, not a race.