Safe to say, you haven't spent much time in nature.

Everything has their spaces and needs and will defend them.

The problem for people isn't so much ego, as it is the ability to abstract. So we tend to extend out our spaces far beyond our own immediate purposes and our needs far into the future.

As these linear, goal oriented creatures, we live in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality and thus our projections create far more blowback than we are able to acknowledge.

Ego is more a function of living in large groups, where social status becomes a part of defining one's space. When one lives further out on the fringes of the group, the larger reality imposes itself in ways that enforce some degree of humility.

As for the politics, to the group/tribal culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while in nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience.

That's because it is the function of culture to synchronize the community as one larger social organism, using the same languages, rules and measures. Yet organisms exist in ecosystems, where everything doesn't all march to the beat of the same drummer. It is multicultural, not monocultural.

While the organism synchronizes its actions, the ecosystem harmonizes across the field. The positive feedback of working together, whether as cells, or individuals, has limits, imposed by that larger reality and context. When they are reached, the negative feedback starts to kick in.

As for liberal and conservative, we are all on that spectrum between the anarchies of desire pushing us out and the tyrannies of judgement, defining our reality. The heart and the head.

Even galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

The problem is when we try to apply a monolithic paradigm, so the dynamic polarizes, leaving each side thinking they are on the road to nirvana, while the other are misbegotten fools, if not actively evil. Yet the overall effect is a spiraling into the abyss, for the whole society.

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

Since the foundational principle for Western Civ is monotheism, even if only in its shadow, we tend to mistake our ideals as absolutes. Given there are multitudes of absolutes; truth, beauty, platonic forms, etc, the effect is endless conflict between the more obsessive/compulsive, as the rest of us try to steer around their idiocies.

Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead. To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. For Judiasm, it has always been more tribal, than global. The formative experience was the forty years in the desert, giving monotheistic religion the Ten Commandments.

The Romans only adopted a monotheistic sect as their state religion, as the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic. Essentially to validate rule from above. Divine right of kings, as it came to be known. The Big Guy Rules.

For Islam, the power of a common creed was first realized, then the political structures flowed out of that, so the relationship between religion and state is not the same as in the Christian world. So the idea of separating church and state, when politics went back to being more populist, hasn't been as neat.

Nature is more the binary. Yin and yang. The spectrum and feedback between the poles. Organisms and ecosystems, synchronization and harmonization, nodes and networks, particles and fields.