The reality is that to nature, good and bad are the biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, basically the 1/0 of sentience. What is good for the fox, is bad for the chicken.
So nature is like some giant computer that keeps coming up with confusing answers, because we need that simple clarity. We can't take both directions at the fork in the road and nuance only confuses the decision, so the devil is in the details.
What's worse are the feedback loops and the blowback. Where too much of a good thing, is bad and bad can have benefits, like being educational.
We are linear, goal seeking organisms in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, so we resemble puppies chasing our tails.
While we might think we are smart, biology developed greater levels of complexity by a hundred million years ago, than our stunted social models.
For one thing, being object oriented, we lose sight of the networking being every bit as essential as the node. Reality is as much or more the verbs, than the nouns. The processes generating the patterns. Territory, not the math.
The basic problem with the Middle East, as well as the West in general, is the logical fallacy of monotheism.
A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.
Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion as the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy Rules.
Ancient Israel was a monarchy and so monarchy became the default political system for Europe for the next 1500 years. When the West went back to public government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics.
We really need to examine our cultural assumptions, or we will shortly just be scrounging through the ruins.
When every culture insists their ideals are the one and only, it becomes all against all.
The node is synchronization. The network is harmonization. We exist as fluctuations in the middle.
