Digital is the enemy of romance, open space, and life in the moment.
Ambience, tolerance, and random chance are suppressed.
Variation and "noise" eliminated.
Newer is better. Older inferior. Experience devalued. A collective past irrelevant.
Organic becomes a luxury. Hand-made unimaginable.
As "Development" eradicates nature, and "Progress" erodes sustainable humanity, Resistance is seen as sentimental and futile.
Restoration, or preservation of the existing world, becomes quaint, archaic.
But style, spontaneity, and the mysteries of Love, survive in the cracks of the digital world.
As History cascades into landfills, a few resist
The Lever underground
They Don't Make Stuff Like They Used To
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