Human beings create top-down symbolic systems, money, status, institutional authority, prestige, and then treat those systems as though they were natural forces.

There is a quiet hazard to doing good.

When an altruist steps into a chaotic field, whether social, political, or spiritual, they become part of the system they hope to heal. The turbulence that drew them in can, if not approached with care, recoil upon them or those nearby.