The Strange Mundanity of Flight

Airplanes, Wi-Fi, and the new normals we invariably accept

Photo by Suhyeon Choi on Unsplash

There are a lot of odd things about the times in which we’re living, but few are odder than the fact that we can launch into the atmosphere in window-equipped sky-mobiles and disembark on another side of the world. Arguably stranger still, though, is how quickly we’ve become jaded to the novelty.

A mere century after the …