My experience recently in a mall in Las Vegas made me think of Barbara Streisand, a 60’s icon the radical left who was also a star of stage, screen, and song. How in the heck would I be thinking of Barbara in a mall in Las Vegas? Well, it wasn’t because she was walking the mall with her husband, or because I heard her songs blaring over some loud speaker.

Rather, it was because I sat there watching people in the mall, and realized that people don’t need other people nearly as much any more, rather, we spend more time watching each other hoping that others won’t interfere with our lifestyles and our trips out to the outside of our homes. We are becoming a much more private people, people not interested in much anything else than what is on their particular schedule for that particular day. We are cut off from each other. We are not people, People Who Need People.