Some believe we're seeing a broader return to the local away from an atomizing radical individualism. The causes for this shift are likely many, not least of al

Some believe we're seeing a broader return to the local away from an atomizing radical individualism. The causes for this shift are likely many, not least of all that human nature is social and that life is always located, but two circumstantial causes that come to mind are the shift to remote work that occurred during the pandemic which gave people the opportunity to break out of old routines and experience the shift to local, and the steady decrease in trust of disembodied, remote, and effectively faceless media and information brokers (add to this the deepfakes that will make video and audio evidence increasingly dubious) who are rapidly losing their control of "the narrative". (The owl of Minerva flies only at dusk.)