Left alone, a cup of coffee will gradually cool until it reaches room temperature.
Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system.
The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture.
Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature.
(As I write this, the built-in grammar tool has made suggestions to every single sentence, pushing to make it sound less like me and more like normal.)