Quote about the Phenomenology of Homenesslessnes

It is the alienation from home and homeness that is the most telling consequence of global technology, global communications, global architecture, global religion, global bureaucratisation and global economy. None of this is to be confused with Marshall McLuhan's 'global village'. The conductive to community - but global community never came. On the contrary, along with globalisation came the antithesis of community - the automisation of daily life. As structures, technologies, forms and processes became remote and indifferent to unique place, so society was privatised out of existence. To recover 'home' is thus to recover 'community', by which is implied not simply meaningful human interaction, but the built fabric and natural processes that are essential components of one's 'significant environment'. To fight for home and community is thus to fight the debilitating and degrading alienation that, so many contemporary prophets have informed us, is the modern condition. There can be few more urgent tasks.

P.R. Hay 1994a: 11 in Main currents in Western Environmental Thought