American Collectivity
"From one perspective or another, all our lives are narrow. Only when lives are placed side by side do they seem larger." - D.J. Waldie, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
I write from the land of rugged individualism, a place where smartphone addicts are together apart. They say it’s getting worse faster and with more intensity than ever before. Given these conditions, what choice do we have but to be fatalistic and lonesome, or optimistic and cruel?
And yet…
I think we misread the situation, missing the ecosystem for the trees. Once you see it you can’t unsee it. There is no such thing but society. We are never bowling alone.
American Collectivity.