“Have you seen everything you want to see?”
“Yeah. You?”
“Me too. Let’s go back home.”
That’s a paraphrased version of my parents’ conversation midway through their honeymoon in 1958. Unimpressed by the hype of an out-of-state adventure, they chose to hightail it back to the real world.
(The real worlds of 1958 and 2023 are strikingly different. Today’s “reality” is tha...