The logical fallacy is that we tend to treat ideals as absolutes. One is aspirational, while the other is elemental.

This goes to the foundations of Western culture. The premise of monotheism is the spiritual absolute would be an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell, but logically it would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise.

The Ancients were not ignorant of monotheism, but as there was no separation between culture and civics, it equated with authoritarianism. As in, one god, one ruler. Remember that democracy and republicanism developed in pantheistic societies, which were the multiculturalism of the day. Constantine settled on Christianity as the official Roman religion to support the empire that Rome had solidified into.

When the West went back to more populist forms of government, it required a separation of church and state, culture and civics. All the movements which have sought to replace monotheism and its political expression, monarchy, have also tended to make the claim their ideals were absolute, from the Terrors of the French Revolution, to the purges of Stalinism, even the worship of the bottom line, in late stage capitalism.

In our consumer culture, where every need, want, impulse, desire, etc is glorified and magnified, in order to sell something and any asceticism has been long lost, it has become the equivalent of a mass temper tantrum, of everyone wanting whatever they want.

Reality is more the yin and yang of balanced opposites, than it is the God Almighty of monist idealism.