So, I'm a software developer, so it's not like I'm against software. I also work remote, and it's fine. But... Sometimes you need to remove a restriction, in

So, I'm a software developer, so it's not like I'm against software. I also work remote, and it's fine. But... Sometimes you need to remove a restriction, in order to find out why that restriction was important. It's like if gravity goes away (https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/end_of_gravity/ https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/end_of_gr...), and you discover you were depending on gravity to do a lot of things for you, even though it was a drag when you have to get up in the morning. The Great Weirdening that the author discusses, is not unrelated to the fact that every little pocket of greed, hatred, or delusion can reinforce itself online. Also, that one nation after another finds that it has no consensus anymore, no political center of gravity to use for keeping it together. And if you can't get to consensus by talking, eventually, you get to it by violence. I'm not sure the Great Weirdening is going to be all that good. It may be that having colocated physical spaces and shared media helped us learn to get along with people that aren't like us, and it may be that is a difficult but important skill to have.