Steve,

What I'm arguing is more a yin/yang, than a God Almighty.

The premise of relativism is that without that ultimate, absolute code, that only an absolute god can provide, it's just a dog eat dog, anything goes world out there.

Yet the fact is that even the absolute is balanced by the infinite and everything in between is relational. The nodes need their networks, the trees need their forests, the individual needs the community, the signal arises from the noise and exists in context to it. And vice versa. Even matter is more the balance of positive and negative chanrge, than any base substance.

The problem with a strict, top down absolutism is that there is nothing to balance it out and the social and cultural consequence is swirling into the abyss of fanaticism and fundamentalism, because the absolute is that ultimately neutral state. The Black Hole, the eye of the storm, at the center. Which is the touchstone for order, while the energy driving the system radiates toward infinity. Both directions are entropic and they provide the balance between which we exist. Everything canceling out, and everything fading out.

Cosmic convection cycles. Galaxies.

Ps, As well as the heart and the head. The anarchy of desire versus the tyranny of judgement. Youth and age. Liberal and conservative.