Country folks vs City folks.

While the United States harnesses cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence to control the narrative and trap the hive mind into its own bubble, military might bolstered by space domination through free energy extraction devices, and speculative gravitic devices to dominate global narratives and entrench its hegemony, a farmer in rural Bangladesh relies on rudimentary technology for mere subsistence harvesting. In the grand narrative of human progress, big cities emerge as pivotal forces, accelerating the divergence of civilizations into parallel universes within a single world.

This disparity mirrors ancient asymmetries: While India was beginning to formulate its inaugural theological frameworks through the Vedas, Upanishads, and grammatical innovations, the Beni Israel had already overthrown Egypt's pinnacle civilization, honing their theology into sophisticated personal and geopolitical ethics.

Such simultaneous yet staggered developments expose the fractured, asynchronous essence of civilizational time—overlapping temporalities where some societies forge ahead, widening unbridgeable chasms from others. This dynamic is exemplified by Ibn Khaldūn’s dichotomy between the resilient, cohesive rural existence (umrān badawī) and the intricate, diversifying urban realm (umrān ḥaḍarī), not as sequential stages but as coexistent modes with distinct logics and durations. From a Hegelian lens, this uneven unfolding reflects the World-Spirit (Weltgeist) attaining self-awareness sporadically: one culture laboriously composes metaphysical poetry, while another crystallizes theology into instruments of statecraft.

Big cities, as hubs of concentrated resources and intellect, intensify these gaps, propelling innovation while rural spheres lag in slower orbits. The perception of some "universes" outpacing others shifts from material to intellectual domains, underscoring developmental lags as inherent to history's staggered rhythm.

What can you do? "Adopt, Watch and Learn," as this method transcends mimicry, evolving into a Jungian quest for individuation: integrating conflicting archetypes to forge psychic wholeness amid fragmentation. Salvaging the self demands this internal synthesis, lest external schisms erode personal coherence before it's too late.

Footnote:

Have We not made for him two eyes? And a tongue and two lips? And have shown him the two highways (of good and evil)? - Sūrat al-Balad, 90:8

He has succeeded who purifies it, And he has failed who instills it [with corruption] - Sūrat al-Shams, 91:9-10

"The more things change, the more they are the same," Alphonse Karr.