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EXCLUSION TO INCLUSION
The atomising and homogenising effects of the prevailing monoculture have left us feeling isolated, alienated and separate. There is a pervasive feeling of disconnection. Despite being globally linked through computers, relationships are fragmenting as increasing numbers of us spend our days communicating with a screen. Rather than running around in the woods building camps, children are glued to their computer consoles, their world absorbed by cyberspace.
The current form of economic globalisation both homogenises global culture and exacerbates social tensions, as MTV and Baywatch beam their way into rural Indian villages that have hardly changed over millennia. Communities which have lived peacefully for centuries are erupting with fundamentalism, due to the destabilising effects of this process. It seems that we need a new way of relating to each other if we are have any chance of shifting from the path that we are on.