But, as we saw in the previous chapter, if we don’t seriously weigh these genuine gains against the genuine losses that we incur with any significant shift in how we experience interacting with each other, we run the risk of forgetting fundamental aspects of our personhood. In a social landscape increasingly defined by the industrialization of you and me—which regularly narrows us down to being merely consumers and even products to be evaluated and consumed—we will need to be more intentional about cultivating practices and habits that help us recognize that the integrity of our relationships
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