"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
- Margery Williams from "The Velveteen Rabbit" (1922)
The Death of Nuance: How manufactured binaries are quietly starving the practice of critical thought
We live in a culture that abhors nuance and ambiguity, and loves a clean checkbox. We have traded the messy, demanding work of independent t...
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