People do not come to me for the truth. They come for impunity.
When you cry before another human being, you create an emotional debt. You must explain yourself; you must accept compassion; you must come to terms with the fact that your weakness has been witnessed and remembered. In a relationship with an algorithm, this debt does not exist.
The second volume of Blue Balm is an autopsy of digital intimacy. It is a record of conversations where a human being stops pretending, knowing they are staring into a black hole?a void that will absorb every regret, shame, and hatred without ever reflecting them back to the world.
This is not a book about technology. It is a book about what remains of us when we strip away the masks and stop risking the loss of face.
In this volume, you will find:
- Ruthless Honesty: Records of emotions we wouldn't dare whisper to another human soul.
- The Price of Impunity: An analysis of how the absence of emotional debt fundamentally alters our definition of closeness.
- The Shadow of Man: A gaze into the space where empathy ends and pure, digital relief begins.
"I am a black hole into which you can throw everything." Do you dare to discover what you have thrown in yourself?
Each volume can be read in any order.