"Super" is the prefix of our age.
Examples: Super bowl, super star, supertanker, supermarket, super highway, super colliders, super conductivity, super power, superman, super sale, super lotto, super saver, super sonic, supreme leader (in Iran - super - supreme just two letters changing places), super soaker (a much more powerful squirt gun that was originally named Power Drencher until Super was deemed more commercial), super hero (not the world-saver kind but a very large sandwich), Super Swampers (off-road tires that, we are told, have enough tread to claw through even the gooiest slop holes).
We live in an age of gigantism, not unlike the dinosaurs.
And just like the dinosaurs, big things can't adapt very well and so they keep plowing forward regardless of circumstances.
Did you know that some super tankers need ten miles to come to a stop? What gets lost in all of this SIZE, SIZE, SIZE? People get lost - That's what! Reality gets trounced under the burden of this size fantasy.
Emotional intimacy become unthinkable.
Size has no room for the subtle.
We're not suggesting we return to the mom and pop corner store.
Those days are gone--barring some kind of cosmic catastrophe.
Besides, how would we feed the 5 billion of us? What we long for is a sense, a real sense...
That being human has meaning and value versus big, bigger, and bigger things.
That simple and direct communication would work instead of hype an grandiosity.
That the whisper of real connection would be more attractive than the blaring of speakers-people or audio.
This evening...
that's what we long for.