It is in Weber’s language, disenchanting, and I agree with the critics of modernity that a fulfilling life requires enchantment.

We have a culture of hyper efficiency and efficiency isn’t the only metric of a fulfilling life. While you can choose to opt out from a lot of it, certainly from ordering food online, you can’t so easily, or at all, from other essential parts of life — like medicine, work, education, and even finding a partner in life.

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I’ve been flying internationally and locally for fifty-five years and it has never been safer, as convenient, and inexpensive as now. A lot of what gets thrown into the “it all currently sucks” label is that a lot more people are doing it, including the plebes, so everything is more crowded.

The process all works rather smoothly though, until it

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