The perception of the connected spiraling of life is largely lost in our mechanistic world-view, and we feel that we have lost control as we climb over each other to remain at the top of the wheel.
We forget that the one thing we have control over is our own behavior, and that our treatment of each other is key to creating our experience. The life around us suffers also- as we fight to steer the oncoming weight in any direction except toward ourselves. Cartesian certainty becomes the certainty of doom, in a universe ruled by the worship of material- for all things must wither and decay, as time grinds on and space both narrows and becomes increasingly empty. All objects are in a state of constant decline, as their composition is constantly stealing and losing electrons while entropy looms and then swallows everything.
Such is life in the flat universe.
Such is life in the flat universe.