Collections! Has the Internet Ruined Our Relationship to Our Stuff? Should We Be Concerned If the Machine Decides How We Organize Our Things? Is It Bad If Humans Stop Collecting Real Books and Music?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: For Benjamin, the very possession of these books formed his identity as a reader, writer, and human being — even if he hadn’t read all of them. They sat proudly on his shelves as symbols, representing the knowledge that he still aspired to gain or the cities he had traveled, where he encountered a book in a previously unknown shop. Collecting books was his way of interacting with the world, of building a worldview. This paragraph is from a Substack essay written by Kyle Chayka.  The essay is titled: "The Digital Death of the Collector."  You can read the essay here: https://kylechayka.substack.com/p/essay-the-digital-death-of-collecting Zac and Don discuss the role of collecting things in our lives.  They talk about some of their collections.  They also wonder how technology has impacted humans as collectors.