“Local" is whatever you can reach with a pitchfork. Mostly, a pile of shit, but its something you can see, smell and touch its risks and responsibilities.

If we are to let remote systems become the dominant species, then we need feedback mechanisms that inform our lizard brains and encourage us to combine our tiny Executive functions cooperatively and appropriately. In other words, anything we don’t have direct feedback sensibility with should be considered nonlocal.

Stranger: danger; the homogenization of circumstances and artificially low prices shouldn’t be an excuse for false familiarity and acceptance of global destruction. In capitalism, reality itself pivots on price reflecting costs and benefits.