We are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality.

The irony of individualism is it makes us socially isolated and therefore more dependent on the institutional support systems.

The two elemental dynamics are the synchronization of wave action, which is centripetal, drawing into the center, while harmonization is a consequence of the energy radiating across the space and balancing out. Like galaxies, energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

Nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.

Consequently when you get caught up in a feedback loop and don't find some grounding outside of it, you get pulled into the vortex in the middle. As much of the West finds itself.