its problem is made more intractable by a different sort of deracination – more than just the severance from place, or even from history, but the inevitably consequent severance from the roots of all meaning in shared values and experiences, the vast implicit realm from which imagination draws its power.
Meaninglessness is emptiness.
The opposite of addiction is purpose. -Jimmy Carr
Meaning is drawn from that which we fill our lives; meaningfull. It is meaningfull so far as we take/accept responsibility for it. These are the inflection points where one accepts and makes a choice. Choice relies on ones capacity to imagine the potentialities, both great, good and terrible.
Life without choice, responsibility and meaning is empty and this is that vacume we spak of that is often filled with addictive behaviours/reactions. Thus, consider how communities torn from place and space, individuals displace from time etc, struggle to find meaning, accept responsibility, percieve purpose and make thier own concious choice, submitting instead to additions both social and anti-social.
