The Lifeless Virtual Road to Nowhere

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Today, anything and everything either has a price or is categorized as worthless. This grander-then-grand fake binary now pervades every nook and cranny of every ecosystem on planet earth. But who decides what does and what does not have value?

Is the decider even human? Or, perhaps, a Russian “bot,” or an algorithm originating on Wall Street or the City of London.

Our world has become otherworldly as machines cancel all recollection of anything real...