We cannot operate as a society without a predictable and malleable environment. We depend on this for navigation, communication, infrastructure, and nearly everything we use.
We analyze our environment, categorize its resources, and test its applications. We combine knowledge with innovation to develop processes that make the environment increasingly useful and predictable.
We create, alter, or destroy what surrounds us to meet our needs and desires. We anticipate the future, make plans for what does not yet exist, and deploy technology to reshape the environment accordingly.
What we collectively establish as fact is essential to the functioning of society, so it cannot simply be denied.
Our individual reality is not fully predictable. Day-to-day life brings constant change, disruption, and the unexplained. Yet we must maintain routine lives while randomly absorbing inconsistencies.
Society demands that we obey the rules even when they do not equally support us as individuals. We must meet expectations regardless of problematic circumstances that we have no control or say over.
We balance everyday ordinary life against uncertainty and an overwhelmingly mysterious existance, sometimes without the language necessary to articulate abnormalities with those around us.
What we genuinely experience as individuals affects our ability to function within that same society, so it cannot simply be ignored.
Currently, there is no unifying force between these two conditions, and thus, there is disruption within the framework of personal and societal relationships that leads to conflict.