There are approximately 40 wars in 35 countries going on as you read this. Terrorism is rife and if ‘they’ don’t get you a global pandemic probably will. At least that’s how quite a few people feel. Post 9/11 the feeling was probably fearful but this has now settled down to anxiety and, if all goes well this might level off to people being slightly rattled. But the general feeling isn’t going away. Trust has all but evaporated (people don’t trust institutions like government or the police any longer) and the speed of change, together with technology that disempowers, has left people yearning for the past. This insecurity is to some extent generational but whether you’re eighteen or eighty there is a general feeling of powerlessness. This in turn is fuelling everything from an interest in nostalgia to the growth in narcissism, localisation and tribalism.