When you first see Amazon on the rise, you don’t realize that you will soon not be »able to get the things you can get there that you need all the time… in your neighborhood. It’s a vacuum. It sucks up all the business that was being done »between persons. The character of neighborhoods and relationships. The ‘little local families’ of people who work and live and shop … together.

That disappears. And you get a machine that takes care of all that.

And precisely the same thing happens… in every layer of our self-colonizing American ‘culture’. The next great thing becomes an undertaker. For anything that existed before it. And the relationships and meaningful ways of being human communally … that would have otherwise survived, and perhaps… even flourished.

The virtues of our human potential cannot be legislated into existence. They have to be invoked. Together. With and for each other. In relation. And learning. Play, wonder and heroism.

Anything that vacuums that up… and spits out crude representations of the remains…

Well, finish the sentence for me…