RE: Algorithmic Degeneracy

Your first kiss was in public? Not mine! It was in a boy's basement, his mother popping in now and then to check on us. She did not look happy, I remember that. Maybe because her son had let me smoke a cigarette down there. I still remember how he smelled, his acne meds I can still smell! Something quite missing via electronics, and must really affect the experience! If one is not able to fully experience the charge of human contact, do they settle for less? Does less seem good enough, as exciting? We are seemingly being systematically deadened.