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A human community, then, if it is to last long, must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place. Practically speaking, human society has no work more important than this.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Yet we all know (or should know) that the choices available to us are hardly random. They radically expand and contract based on which countries we happened to be born into, which bodies, which genders, which races, which families. It’s not only individual lives that hold doppelganger potentialities—so, too, do whole societies.
Interactions between service providers and users are increasingly mediated by online tools, which obscure the laborers behind them; the human element is diminished, and humans are reduced to their ability to generate input for the online machines.
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