In the same way that some of us may never have tasted what a green bean or asparagus could really be like (having only ever had the canned versions), I wonder if we are reaching a similar point as industrialized human beings in a digital world. We may be forgetting—or to use the food analogy, we may be “losing a taste for”—the amazing fruit that can be borne out of a social landscape where human presence is unmediated and our social horizons are bounded enough to discover the depths of who we are in ourselves.
