I just keep thinking that we have to adapt. We still need each other. That never stopped, only becoming more true when the virus hit.
If you’re going to retaliate against someone for speaking generally about renting conditions in Boone, you’ve proved my point that you have more interest in maintaining your market dominance than listening to the community you serve.
The modernization of the world wasn’t a bid for utopia, just for something better. It was never meant to last longer than it was useful. We are not starting over, we are part of the same continuum of concerned but limited individuals working on the system of the world.
Commerce and capitalism are not the same thing. I think it’s good to separate these concepts that have become so intertwined because making these two terms synonymous leads to all sorts of misunderstandings.