As a rule people are hardly conscious about this. Even most of the sociologists, historians and philosophers either don't know anything about it or deny that anyhow there would be a kind of logical succession in the cultural history of mankind. But regardless of this ignorance concerning these cultural developments everybody is involved with the essential theme of his or her culture. So, in modern times analysis is the essential cultural characteristic of all people. As a result of this common feature mankind considers at the end his world as a construction of completely separate elements.
Reality then counts as a collection of bits and pieces, basically without any fundamental coherence.
This coherence is totally different from a relation between things. The absence of coherence doesn't mean that there wouldn't be any relation between the fragments. There are always and inevitable relations between the pieces, but that is a logical consequence of fragmentation. Relations only can exist between strictly separated objects. They hold the pieces together, accordingly to physicists by several kinds of attracting and repulsing forces.