some people find it difficult to comprehend and thrive within the complexity and diversity of the modern world they find themselves in, so, they retreat into an idealized vision of the past. They can't face the fact their alienation comes from their own inability to come to terms with, enjoy and thrive within the "cultural mosaic" and the rise of global culture. They say the world is wrong and not them, but everyone else is out there enjoying themselves within it, like surfers on a cresting wave of global culture, while hopeless kooks stand at the waters edge, arms outstretched in a vain attempt the stem the tide.