Propinquity

Propinquity means closeness, an increasingly rarefied condition in this era of ghosting. It seems everyone is either ghosting or being ghosted. “Devices” are to blame. In what seems like a far away world of fairies and gobblins you might get snubbed when you tried to talk to someone at a party. In Marxian terms, the rejection was reified. You had comparatively a lot to go on or to give out, as it were. "Devices" are part of the villainy inherent in Jacobean drama. Now extinction lies at everyone’s finger tips. No sooner have you deleted the offending sensibility than they have zapped you back. In fact you may find yourself getting rid of annoying mindsets before you ever have a chance to encounter them. Welcome to the world of virtual reality where you marry someone you’ve met on Tinder or even the cheating service Madison in anticipation of a physical encounter that may or may not occur in your lifetime. In the meanwhile daily life is a mixture of Night of the Living Dead and Invasion of the Body Snatchers with a troll or too from The Silence thrown in for good luck.

read the review ofThe Wormhole Society by Francis levy and Joseph Silver in The East Hampton Star