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Today’s Americans don’t care to know how the gas comes to the pump, the food to the table, the iPad to the store.

Just make sure they do.

But now they’re staring, transfixed, at where things come from. And what people still do to get it to you, and the death and devastation that can result when something goes wrong and it can’t be fixed with a call to technical support.

Oil disaster shows a divide from physical world

A harsh assessment, yes, but I couldn’t help but recognize myself in this piece. We’ve become dangerously disconnected from the world in which we live.

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  • 1 year ago
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