“losing your way”

There is probably a phrase for “losing your way” in every language in the world. Setting a spatial goal and achieving it has probably been an archaic matter since cavemen. The linguistic transfer to idealistic goals only came later.

Nowadays, in the age of anti-Social Media and Artificial Intelligence, this focus on survival still applies. In 2025, however, we unfortunately have to realise that almost all of media-covered) humankind has lost its way. A few old, stupid, religiously obsessed, power-greedy and money-hungry men have shifted the focus from the urgent repair of our spaceship Earth to atavistic wars that were long considered obsolete. Now the focus is no longer on protecting the biosphere, but on invest-ing in deadly weapons. I’m sure there’s an expression for this in every language in the world: it sucks!

--> European Biotechnology Magazine Summer 2025