In a world ruled by Epstein collaborators,

The infrastructure for us not here anymore.

mail-order catalogs
pen-pal lists
shortwave broadcast radio
typewriters and typewriter ribbons
analog TV stations
independent, small-town newspapers with classified ads, including help-wanted ads
independent, analog, small-town radio stations with DJs that take requests and dedications over the telephone
analog, land-line telephones
telephone operators reached by dialing 0
independent, corner grocery stores
milkmen
independent taxi companies
service stations (not just gas stations) with mechanics on-site and non-self-service pumps
analog records
independent local banks with passbook savings accounts
paper job applications
local businesses you can call of the telephone and talk to a human being
a phone company that doesn’t limit or log local phone calls
pay phones all over the place
stationery stores

We still have some public libraries, but they’re under attack. We have just about no local, independent book stores.

A digital world is, unfortunately, largely a inhuman world.