With enough time and a functioning router, the Internet makes a great digital rabbit hole for fried chicken connoisseurs, insurance salespeople, or those who have been thinking about how they can (re)connect themselves with the World when all you can do these days is look out the window from your kitchen.

In recent years, especially in the face of a global pandemic, passionate and sentimental narratives alike concerning the fate of the human race have been nothing but polarized. Some lament the downfall of humanity as ‘we’ have been to enslaved by the endless desire to develop and consume as…