The interview that Chris and I conducted with Nat from Amherst books was essential in completing our final project. The interview allowed for us to get the view point of someone who was going to be directly affected by the amazon UMass partnership. He was clearly very skeptical about amazon coming to the university, due to the obvious reason that it could drive down his business. Moving on from that, it seemed that our friend Nat had more than just an economic opposition towards the partnership.  It was clear to tell that our interviewee had a moral stand to take against amazon, to the point where you could see signs and giveaways on his face and body. While we were conducting the interview, he would start rocking in his chair, speak with a range of inflections, and get physically animated in some parts. This helped our group exponentially with the project, because it allowed us to see the dangers to this kind of expansion. There was a point in our interview left out of the video, where he starts talking about how many old bookstores used to be in Amherst 30 years ago, and states there was around 8 in such a small town, and how people would come from other parts of the state to just walk around to shop and browse various kinds of literature. His reflection is sadly paired with the fact that there is only one of those bookstores left, which is Amherst books. Over the years, corporate booksellers have taken over the normality of a small bookstore. Nat tells us that over the years he sees less and less people come in and browse and read and purchase. The faces in bookstores that were once friendly and familiar have become once in a blue moon strangers. The human connection that we were once accustomed to while participating in every day wants and needs is dwindling. People are becoming less prone to strike up a random conversation with a bookst9ore clerk. And this is a shame because that means we have less opportunity to establish key moments, or even ones more miniscule. Simple moments like when a clerk sees a book and recommends another based off of your decision. This kind of interaction pushes people into influence and direction that they wouldn’t encounter on your normal path in life. The sad fact is these interactions are crucially important. The scariest thing about going through life uninterrupted is never getting an alternative perspective or influence. These kind of things allow us to grow and learn things as individuals that we wouldn’t normally be subjected to. The depersonalization that is rapidly taking place in our society is terrifying, causing people to have the opportunity to freely operate in their own bubble. This independent thought process needs to be closely looked at because without experience and exposure it is very easy for individuals to lack consideration and empathy, when dealing with unlike individuals.