What's Going On Here?

I asked that question in a presentation I did for an industry conference yesterday. Today, at lunch with a new colleague from that conference, we became engaged in a discussion about men's issues and the way society is headed. (I'll address the "coincidental" nature of our having lunch another time)

The thing that struck me as we talked is that society is currently in a dead sprint. I mean we are all running. While we think we are running AFTER something, I would maintain that, in a spiritual sense, we are all running FROM something. What is that? What IS going on that we are seemingly all running AWAY from something?