We are mobile organisms, which necessitates this sequential process of perception, in order to navigate.

So the most foundational cultural distortion is assuming time as some narrative dimension, along which the present moves from past to future, when the reality is that change turns future to past.

Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is "conserved," because it is the present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So the energy, as dynamic present, goes past to future, while the patterns it generates go future to past. Rising and falling.

Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

Consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information.

Lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

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

Sometimes the simple is more difficult to understand than the complex.

The problem of money is that it's a social contract, enabling society, but we treat it as a commodity to mine from society. Since storing it requires debt to back the asset, our entire culture is about generating debt, to store the illusion of wealth. The medium became the message.

We have a looong way to go.