The crude oil spill
From the vantage point of the ground, there is an immediate darkness engulfing you. Without power, you cannot direct the darkness, you cannot run, you cannot escape, you cannot fight back. Your movement is so slow it's practically still. You can only feel it seeping into your every pore.
From the vantage point from the oil, you are being released on to the ground. The walls that used to confine you, provide comfort and structure are gone. From no speed to all speed, from no direction to all direction. No control where you are going. Where there is space, where there is gravity that's where you'll go.
But from high up above, from the vantage of the brown albatross, you can see how the oil is accumulating in the canyons, you can see which ground will be hit or not. There are dams that can be built, containment walls to provide the safety and the structure.
But the structure, it takes sustained effort.
Perhaps in creating containers of separateness, the sustained integration is what is required.