By television and other public means, we are encouraged to believe that we are far advanced beyond sitting till bedtime with the neighbors on a Kentucky ridgetop, and indeed beyond anything we ever were before. But if, for example, there should occur a forty-eight-hour power failure, we would find ourselves in much more backward circumstances than our ancestors. What, for starters, would we do for entertainment? Tell each other stories? But most of us no longer talk with each other, much less tell each other stories. We tell our stories now mostly to doctors or lawyers or psychiatrists or
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Imagine nowadays a 48 hour internet failure. With every layer added to the stack, the sophistication of what is afforded us grows, connecting us to more optimal ends and enabling them to satisfy our needs, and we are by that much more impoverished when the layer becomes unavailable.
