With globalization, the world turned to a homogeneous cultural soup. We have kids in Laos listening to Taylor Swift and eating burgers. Every hipster in Amsterdam eats sushi three times a day. A startup CEO connects with Pachamama with their Harvard-educated Ayahuasca shaman. Because of global trade and easy travel, we become more alike.

That is not good or bad. It is good to take the best from the world and consciously adopt it as our own. Being different is not a problem either though. It makes us unique and with uniqueness comes specialisation and market edge.

Each part of the dark forest is different. There is no single recipe for a good life, a good society, a magic structure that will solve all our problems. There is no template to copy. There is only our skill to discover what works for us, in our particular situations.