It may be true that you can never go home again, but it is also true that you cannot change from whence you came. Our exposure to ācultureā and āculturesā is completely dictated by the physical space we inhabit and the people that share that space with us. As best as I can tell, the advent of the digital landscape has not really changed that. There was a brief period in the early days when I had hope it would, but as more and more joined the digital revolution, it simply became the A/R arm of the forced collective experience that the ever present āmiddleā dictates. We are geotagged and/or relegated to the appropriate groups without much consideration for any desire to expand beyond the popular.
We live in precarious times. We live in times that require us to look beyond our immediate bubble and grow beyond our problems.