The ‘taken-for-granted’ disappears
A look out of the window or at the screen shows a world where our 'ontological security' is disappearing. Our very fundamental sense of being is being broken. Our sense of continuity of our lives is ruptured. Multiple crisis rock the sense of the self. All of a sudden we are all at the ‘front-lines’ of experiencing the polycrisis.

Ontological security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_security

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Do you ever have days when you feel a bit anxious and worried, but can’t find a specific reason for either feeling? Maybe I can call it ‘existential angst’, which seems more profound somehow than saying I just feel ‘out of sorts’? Or maybe I should channel my previous life as a sociologist and call it ‘ontological insecurity’? #sundayFeeling #worrywart #Giddens

18.01.1938 Der Soziologe Anthony #Giddens, Schöpfer der Strukturations­theorie, wird geboren.