In the absence of meaning and purpose, people become fearful. Fearful people will attach themselves to anyone who promises to reduce their anxiety. Often, this involves attachment to one who promises a return to the past—a promise to restore the glory days of the institution, without thinking critically about the ills of that era. Unhelpful attachments to the past do not serve an organization well. These attachments merely deny the conditions that gave birth to liminality and they prolong disorientation.
