Thanks for the impactful article (I'm tempted to say Bam! Adebayo, but I'm sure you've heard that before).

Yes a profound change in the world during the past 100 years, mostly a shift from small farms to city living, then from shop keepers and tenant farmers to service sector staff for merchandising chains and low-wage immigrants for agribusiness. Family farms and shops were a good way to make your kids behave, now that memory seems quaint. We are slaves to a "more efficient society", yet before we all get gobbled up by AI and online everything (and Fascists as you say), I wonder if there's a "Fareinheit 451" opt out, where village economies may reemerge for the brave ones.

Maybe I'm a Luddite.