Postmodernity's response has been to take a new interest in spirituality, which has seen the rise in interest in everything from Celtic Christianity to Buddhism. Because of the impact of globalization, postmodern culture has a wide information base if not first-hand experience with different cultures and belief systems. While this opens us up to much that is new, not everything that is new is acceptable or good. Instead of relying on any previous cultural norms to tell us right from wrong, we ride the shifting currents of political correctness. Because of the tendency to vivisect and fragment life through the scientific approach, postmodernism seeks a new wholeness, an integrated holism.
Young employees are much more interested in having a life than a career.
While there are many benefits of bringing everything together, over-integration can have a flattening effect on life as well. Because of the highly individualistic nature of modernism, postmodernism's reaction has swung toward a desire for community. The Lone Ranger has been replaced by Friends. Lastly, because science is all about progress, it cares little about what went before. Therefore, postmodernism casts wistful glances backward into history, looking for some sense of rootedness.