That is the cycle. The saplings rise where the big tree once stood. Yet our current obsession is that we are heading towards tyranny, when it's the other direction we have to worry about, anarchy. Which will not resemble hippie communes, so much as Mexican cartels. Those saplings will fight over who gets the sunlight.

It is always that tension between energy and form. The anarchies of desire and the tyrannies of judgement.

Transcendence and order.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in. Between black holes and black body radiation.

So it's a matter of understanding the balance. More yin and yang, than God Almighty.