There are certainly layers and layers and layers of culture and biology habituating us to this underlaying dichotomy of fear and greed that all our higher order evolved nuance, subjectivity and complexity can't resist, when it becomes that race to the bottom.

Yet the foundational reality is the tension between synchronization, which is centripetal and harmonization, which is centrifugal. Nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields. We try to unravel the feedback loop and only find it shallowing us up.

Is time the point of the present, moving past to future, or is it change, turning future to past?

Would a spiritual absolute be an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell, or the essence of sentience, from which we rise?

Is money a commodity to mine from society, or the social contract enabling it?

Sometimes we have to spiral into the abyss to grow beyond our mortal horizons.

Life is circular.