Recently I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.