The everyday madness perpetuated by the internet is the madness of this architecture, which positions personal identity as the center of the universe. It’s as if we’ve been placed on a lookout that oversees the entire world and given a pair of binoculars that makes everything look like our own reflection. Through social media, many people have

I was more than a bit blinded by the bright lights. But it’s very hard, when you’re in a good light—“Where did you say you work? The New Yorker?!”—to accept that it isn’t you; it’s just light.