Agalia Tan

We are each of us little nations full of pointless bureaucracy full of an entire alphabet of grievances we have no idea what to do with.

But what is a grievance, if not a stop on the road to grieving.

“What happens when making an image and becoming one align?”

The seeds of intimacy are time and repetition. We choose each other again and again, and so create a community of two.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

We are deeply into sex, but at the same time, deeply at odds with it, often misunderstanding our own urges, needs, and desires. We judge our sexual longings, we curtail our desires, and we cut ourselves off from all that it affords us. We convince ourselves that we just don’t need it or want it. This is a problem that speaks to an unhappiness at ou

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“I like it when people make clear artistic decisions,” he said. “In a time of so-called A.I., personality becomes even more important.” Using technology to randomize content and narrative, he added with a laugh, “becomes a little bit garbage.”

By leading us off the easy path—the one that leads to the garbage can and the mailbox—we can enable new activities.