But stand far enough back from the processes of change and you will see spiraling.
In the Soviet bloc in 1988, most intellectuals felt divorced from the processes of formal Marxist-Leninist politics.
The problem lies in the belief that sexual fantasies are organic, divorced from the processes of socialisation.
The trouble is, we're so separated from the processes that bring us our food that we no longer know or care about them.
On the other, there are those who favour longer-term support for the infrastructure of social change – for the institutions that determine who wins and who loses from the processes and politics of development.
Unlike Tara or the cinema's procession of haunted houses, the homes in these two movies and Mr. Marchese's book derive their metaphorical power not from the lives lived in them, but from the processes of building them.
Large institutions, he said, are "financial firms whose owners, managers and customers believe themselves to be exempt from the processes of bankruptcy and creative destruction".
It argued that the scanning of Gmail messages was automated, with no human review, and was no different from the processes it uses to detect spam or viruses, offer in-box searching or filter messages into folders.
The intricate details of the shape of a mountain range, for example, result more or less directly from the processes of erosion that progressively remove material from the range.
Jagmati Sangwan, vice president of the All India Democratic Women's Association, said that the men who head such village councils "want women to get cut off from the processes of modernization, education and employment".
The authors conclude: The fact that the earliest climate departures occur in low-income countries further highlights an obvious disparity between those who benefit economically from the processes leading to climate change and those who will have to pay for most of the environmental and social costs.
