I'm Not What You'd Call A Fearless

A Strange Thing Happens When You Interview A Robot. You Feel An Urge To Be Profound: To Ask Profound Questions. I Suppose It’s An Inter-species Thing. Although If It Is I Wonder Why I Never Try And Be Profound Around My Dog. ‘what Does Electricity Taste Like?’ I Ask. ‘like A Planet Around A Star,’ Bina48 Replies. Which Is Either Extraordinary Or Meaningless - I’m Not Sure Which

I Think If Somebody Is So Set In Their Ways About What They Feel About Something - And You Get This A Lot In Academia, Of Course, And Also Different Sorts Of Journalism Too - You're Going To Sweep Under The Carpet The Facts That Don't Suit Your Thesis. And I Think That Happens Quite A Lot In The Courtroom, For Instance.

Capitalism, Perhaps At Its Most Remorseless, Is A Physical Manifestation Of Psychopathy.

In The Midst Of A Burning-hot Shaming, Calling For Patience And Context And Understanding And Empathy Can Really Land You In Trouble.

Nothing Uniquely Bad Has Happened To Me In My Personal Life, But All The Regular Little Bad Things Have Accumulated To Make Me A Neurotic Person. And These Adventures Are My Way Of Trying To Make Sense Of That.