Transpose the reductionist/contextualist dynamic of your argumentation, onto the nodes/networks, individual/social dynamic of your argument.

Western thought tends to confuse the ideal with the absolute. Both are reductionist, but one of emotional preference and the other of conceptual cancelation.

As in the absolute would be the zero between positive and negative, the flatline between up and down. While the ideal is that never to be achieved goal on the horizon.

For example, a spiritual absolute and source would be the essence of sentience, bubbling up through life, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

So while the absolute is the final goal, the dot on the horizon of reductionism, where all sums out, while the infinite is the ultimate contextualization, where all fades out. Consequently we mentally fluctuate between trying to distill truths down to their essence, until all context is lost and all is left is that empty, hollow shell of an ideal. Then stepping back and placing it on the mantle of our everyday lives and marching back out into the infinite.

Thus the primacy of money, as the goal of this culture, where it has become the signal, as material truth, to extract from the noise of society and the economy, ignoring the fact it functions as the medium to lubricate them. Requiring ever more to be added and ever more inventive ways to store what has been extracted. Such as governments as debtors of last resort, allowing their most reductionist elements sources of endless value to create toys of destruction and the need to use them.

It really is more the yin and yang of balance and tension, than the God Almighty of the ideal.

https://medium.com/predict/peeling-the-paradigm-1ceab7e774b0