There are reasons you might feel you are living inside a modern dystopian novel. It’s because George Orwell’s warnings in fiction like 1984 and Animal Farm are becoming real life today in America.

And if we don’t want to turn into some kind of mindless biological robots, you have to start fighting and being loud by making some, as the late John Lewis would say, “good trouble.”

The signs of a new, faulty order are all over.

In daily communication, people don’t really talk with each other any more. They talk at each other — or stare mindlessly at a glowing screen to keep up with whatever the latest idiotic influencer or computer algorithm is spewing.

In business, we’re too willingly letting artificial intelligence take over in countless ways. Some of it actually boosts efficiencies, but

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