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Doug, I'm inclined to advocate for withdrawing from digital culture. Digital culture will always be hampered by the inability to determine who can be trusted. This has always been an imperfect human skill, but has been key to human survival. Many of of us who are here now must have gained some evolutionary advantage. The ability to determine who to trust is being compromised by digital life. Digital existence lacks the smells, the context, the micro movements and other factors that stimulate our suspicions and teach us how to hone and then trust our intuition. In addition, rather than just trying to figure out if I can trust my own family, my coworkers, my neighbors, we are thrust into a "community" of many thousands if not millions working to gain our trust with good and ill intent. Many people living in the digital world prefer the perfect flowers of their video games to the imperfections (and hard work) that go along with the rewards of the true garden. The path to Gardenworld requires unplugging.

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