There’s a John McCutcheon song lyric that has haunted me for years.  The chorus goes like this: “We’re taking a giant step into the future, turning into a thousand other towns–I just heard today the news that they are closing the bookstore down.”  Of course, the song is about modern times in the age of the global web, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, etc., and how for a few decades now we’ve been, in theory, enriching ourselves by…