You make a very good point here about the extent to which our virtual online lives have alienated us from the roots of our existence: our soil, our communities, our common land-based cultures, and Gaia. But please find a good editor before you publish these essays: your piece was full of avoidable syntactical and stylistic blunders, including (1) unnecessary self-referential scaffolding (e.g. “I assert that…”); (2) misplaced modifiers; (3) run-on sentences and fragments; and a comma between subject and verb. These are unnecessary distractions for readers — which are unfortunate since they undermine your credibility when you have many insightful observations!