In moments of idleness, we invent ways of being, transforming language into our reality—like a wizard casting spells.
Yet, the infrastructure supporting and stabilizing these dreams isn’t merely a backdrop for self-discovery and immediate desires, as noted by Benjamin Bratton.
Our era blurs sincerity and parody; assuming our rhetoric can reshape reality risks undermining the very structures that sustain us. Believing in the power of rhetoric over tangible reality will lead to the neglect and degradation (the condemnation) of the critical supports that uphold our luxuriously indulgent lives.