What if the cracks go all the way to the foundations of our culture? Will it eventually tumble into the abyss, or is it the shell incubating something greater?

Consider that to culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while to nature, they are the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. It is that in order to function as a whole, societies need that underlaying hive mind and synchronization is centripetal.

Though harmonization is centrifugal, so no matter how large the organism, it will still be a node in an infinite network.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-cliffs-edge-2b382ae2a73