Office and retail – nobody makes anything any longer, at least not here. Our increasingly irrational dreams are being sustained by money being sent back and forth between banks, and by mostly crappy goods made somewhere else, for cheap. The disappearance of film is also the tale of the disappearance of jobs, the disappearance of us being willing (and able!) to pay for something we can hold in our hands. We’ve brought this situation onto ourselves, our whining every four years (when a Democrat/”left-leaning” candidate for the highest office in whatever country you might find yourself living in pretends s/he cares) notwithstanding.

http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2012/12/review_the_disappearance_of_darkness_by_robert_burley/