Whatever the cultural brand, societies need that core locus, that centripetal coming together. Otherwise the fabric is shredded.

What we have to eventually realize is that both expansion and consolidation are a process that goes to the core of physics and biology.

One is the node, oneness is the network.

Organisms and ecosystems.

Synchronization pulling in. Harmonization balancing out.

Earth is in the middle, where the feedback loops are infinitely tangled.