Without the ups and downs, it's a flatline.

Though careful how far you push it in any one direction, as it creates that much more pressure in the other.

Eventually we will understand this fluctuation in the middle. It took life about a billion years to evolve from colonies of single celled organisms, to multicellular organisms. This last several thousand years has been an evolving process of understanding how civilization can function at ever higher levels of feedback and complexity, between the centripetal and centrifugal elements, that were tearing Israel apart, before Oct 7th.

That the Israelis never got around to The Golden Rule, "Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you." apparently is a lesson that has to be repeated.

Karma. What goes round, comes round.

Turning the clock back 2000 years is not working as planned. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. With Netanyahu in charge, they seem to be leading with the asshole and that is not the direction to take.