--can't stay home making music, you can't go sit in nature, you can't do anything that connects us to each other, none of the labor or play that results in social cohesion, and so you get a nation of paranoid, reclusive, parasites trying to suck the last ounce of marrow out of the bone.

a big part of what's wrong with modern American society is that capital has targeted the connective tissue between people and scrabbled at it with its dirty little claws until it manages to replace each element with extractive misery. you can't garden or hunt, you can't visit your neighbors, you--