We are in danger of entering an era of lostness, the end of belonging in either its restricted conforming sense or its open authentic sense. It is disturbing to witness the reactive backlash that is growing against this global lostness. In reaction to feeling lost we have seen recent attempts to assert the most vicious manifestation of ‘home’ by forceful imposition: for example the rise of nationalism, tribalism, religious fundamentalism, these are all complex phenomena but on some level they are efforts to reduce the world to the security of sameness.
