What you are describing are feedback loops, positive and negative. The overall cycling is generational, say like layers of skin, where the old solidifies and hardens, as it is exposed to the elements, but gradually dries out and peels away.
The overall dynamic is between energy and form. Galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in. Waves are driven by energy, as the form of frequency and amplitude are expressed by the limits of the energy. Rising as the energy enters and falling as it leaves.
As biological organisms, we have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, our appetites and desires. While the central nervous system sorts through and further condensing the signals out of the noise, as information, then knowledge, then wisdom.
Societies are the raw social energies pushing out, as various forms of liberalism, social and cultural preferences and ideals, etc. While conservatism are the forms, cultures, civil structures, social beliefs, that coalesce and give some stable shape to the society. Which each generation takes and expands on, then settles into its own routines, to be pushed by the next generation, expanding and full of energy.
So if you want revolutions, ie, to find where the old is broken and needs to be shed, it should be noted that the greater the crisis, the greater both the opportunity, but also the need to go fairly deeply, because even revolutions are cast aside, if the turmoil is greater.
I wrote an essay, trying to go as deep as possible;
The shorter version;
As mobile organisms, we live in a narrative based culture, where the supreme goal is to provide the direction/narrative for everyone to follow, because motion is fundamental to fauna.
The larger reality though, is not the point of the present, moving past to future, that we experience through our sequential process of perception, but change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There is no literal “dimension” of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform and drive it, aka, causality and conservation of energy.
Time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, noise, etc. Think frequencies and amplitudes. The forms changing.
So the energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns being generated go future to past. As consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts and feelings go future to past. Lives go birth to death, while life goes onto the next generation, shedding the old.
So to up the game, it is not about giving narrative and direction, but explanation. Life is cyclical and when we are only linear and goal driven, we eventually reach the edge of the petri dish and have to turn back. Humanity is not moving onto the Moon and Mars, so much as it has to come to terms with Earth. What goes round comes round. Liberals and conservatives have to learn they are two sides of a larger process, so just because those on the other side seem to be going the other direction, doesn’t make them wrong, just different parts of the larger dynamic.
As for the economic dynamic driving society, capitalism is equated with markets, but markets need money to circulate, while we treat it as the signal to extract from the noise of society and the economy, to save and store. Requiring ever more to be added and ever more precarious ways to store what has been extracted.
Resulting in this enormous tsunami of financialization crashing over the world. While those riding the top of it seem to have all the power, they are just form, expressed by this energy.
Econ 101 says money is both medium of exchange and store of value, but a medium is dynamic, while a store is static. Like energy and form. Blood is a medium, while fat is a store. Roads are a medium, while parking lots are a store.
The functionality of money is in its fungibility. So we own it like we own the road we are using, or the air and water passing through our bodies. It functions as a public utility and should be treated as such.
Consider that the capital markets couldn’t function, without the government siphoning up trillions in surplus money. The secret sauce of capitalism is that public debt backs private wealth. What if the governments threatened to tax out this money and not just borrow it? They are the ones that print it and back it, so why couldn’t they? Then people would start finding other ways to store value for the future. We save for many of the same reasons, from housing and raising children, to retirement, so if these could be invested in directly, as stronger communities and healthier environments, it would peel away much of that extremely corrupt and parasitic financial system. Then money would go back to being a tool, an accounting device, not a God.
We might be goal oriented, but nature will always be cyclical and it is time to see that. The world is round, not flat.
