Big up Morgan,

Way to come back at this story.

The necessary “societal shift” especially resonated with me, as did your excellent phrase: “we are living in an age of unbridled entitlement.”

I might add that this ideology isn’t limited to our current society or “age” as you put it, but is, effectively, a culmination of generation after generation of Americans for who–from the very beginning–the guiding principle has always been Manifest Destiny.

Although I too agreed with certain fragments of the Wired piece, I found the most egregious part of all was the total absence of “a sense of place.”

Was this because the mindset behind the Wired piece was in a sense, no different from the the manifest destiny, little more than raising another reductionist flag, a technology / science-solves-all approach?

Was it just a half-baked, or perhaps fully baked attempt (with clever packaging and marketing) to draw readers into a conversation? (In which case it may be really successful?)

Or was it, as I suspect, simply more thinking by those who have never truly been “placed?” By those who have no real connection to the lands in which they inhabit, to the stories there, the history, or anything else beyond resources, transport, extraction, and one’s own immediate benefit?

Big up Morgan,

Way to come back at this story.

The necessary “societal shift” especially resonated with me, as did your excellent phrase: “we are living in an age of unbridled entitlement.”

I might add that this ideology isn’t limited to our current society or “age” as you put it, but is, effectively, a culmination of generation after generation of Americans for who–from the very beginning–the guiding principle has always been Manifest Destiny.

Although I too agreed with certain fragments of the Wired piece, I found the most egregious part of all was the total absence of “a sense of place.”

Was this because the mindset behind the Wired piece was in a sense, no different from the the manifest destiny, little more than raising another reductionist flag, a technology / science-solves-all approach?

Was it just a half-baked, or perhaps fully baked attempt (with clever packaging and marketing) to draw readers into a conversation? (In which case it may be really successful?)

Or was it, as I suspect, simply more thinking by those who have never truly been “placed?” By those who have no real connection to the lands in which they inhabit, to the stories there, the history, or anything else beyond resources, transport, extraction, and one’s own immediate benefit?