1/ On the psychological level, individuals now feel dispossessed by overwhelming mechanisms, an increasingly fast pace and even heavier constraints—variables so numerous that they are no longer able to grasp where they stand.
2/ That this happens at a time when individuals are lonelier than ever, abandoned to themselves, when all great world-views have caved in, only intensifies this feeling of a nothingness. “Globalization,” says Laïdi, “strangely reproduces the Freudian mechanism of the crowd
3/ in the grips of infection and panic: infection, to the extent that globalization engenders conformity and uniformity; panic because everyone feels alone, faced with mechanisms beyond their understanding.” Accordingly, globalization resembles a puzzle of splintered images.
4/ It provides no vision of the world and it rules out any representation, while public powers, which declare it irreversible, are unable to deploy even symbolic resistance to it. “The depths of the problem of globalization result from interaction between a borderless world and
5/ one with no markers. . . . It is this dialectic between a world with no borders and a world with no markers that explains the crisis of meaning and that reinforces our perception of a disordered world.” #Benoist
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