Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn't as fun as they said it would be Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world
Briefly

"So I move through a world of people who are not all the way there and sometimes hardly there at all and who don't seem to want anyone else to be there either."
"The pandemic emptied out the streets, but this is another kind of emptiness it often seems as though fewer people are out and about, but also the people still present are a lot less present."
"Had this happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie scenario people seeming numbed, dazed, their attention captured and manipulated by the contents of tiny devices controlled by powerful corporations."
"San Francisco still has its walkable, dense cityscape, but no longer the sense especially among the young and affluent that it is a place you belong to by connecting."
Read at www.theguardian.com
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