You could as well be describing the body's immune system. The problem is that reality is more the polarity between opposites, yin and yang, rather than any singular monist/monotheist state.

So there are centripetal, synchronization, as well as centrifugal, harmonization aspects of the dynamic. There are nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems. When the belief becomes either side is somehow superior to the other, it all swings out of a healthy equilibrium. Either spiraling into some vortex in the middle, or dissolving into some entropic state.