reclaiming conversations

We came to expect more from technology and less from each other.

Conversation is about more than information. In conversation, we reveal ourselves to each other in our conflicts, contradictions, and fears. There, we nurture our capacity for empathy by connecting to other humans who have experienced the attachments and losses of human life.

We nurture what we love, but we love what we nurture. We love what we allow ourselves to relate to. It’s important to remember that this love is unrequited.

To flee vulnerability, people in the 2010s mostly turned from talk to text. Today, in the flush of generative AI, we opt for even less risk and talk directly to machines