>>20547104It troubles me to no end how much value people place in low effort, no cost affirmations, platitudes and patronizing as a 100% replacement for meaningful effort, meaningful engagement, meaningful empathy and meaningful gratitude. It pervades workplace and personal lives now to the point of dominance.
Outcomes like this happen when extraordinary circumstances find a human relationship between characters with no substantive foundation to their cognitive, mental and emotional existence; it's all supported by smoke and mirrors and the slightest stress will blow it apart.
