Response to " Bioregional Thinking"

I thought Thayer's piece was interesting in how it pondered the crisis that practically every individual has, that is the question of one's own existence and significance in the world. The quote that most grabbed me near the beginning of the article was the statement that in recent years "we have all become, in certain ways, homeless." I was surprised at how this resonated with me and my own sense of confusion withy how I fit in with the rest of the world. This idea is even more true when observing the feelings of many other young people I know, regardless of how they react to them. Thayer goes on to describe how much of modern society has been taught to forget the idea of "home". I finished this article with the sense that with the advent of technology and all that it has done to make us feel as though we are making far-reaching impacts, we have actually familiarized ourself with a false notion that the physical world has become smaller as well. Because of this we revert back only to the people and places we want to "stay in touch" with, rather than taking the time to discover and care for the areas and people in between what is familiar. Thayer ends by posing the question of whether we can learn to achieve a far-reaching impact while maintaining the close networks that technology has established, and perhaps even rediscovering our sense of home along the way.