Amanda

are constantly experimenting with Petri dishes or whatever.

I don't know, but this is my driving question.

Okay.

Now, when you want to spend your life thinking about spiraling around, being curious about the human condition, I suppose you could use for that experiment yourself or you could use other people.

Okay.

Okay.

What I kind of wanted to say to that person, if I could redo it, was I can barely, I use myself, I'm interested in the human condition.

So I use, I offer myself up as the specimen.

And that's what I'm doing all the time.

I'm trying to say this story, is this about all of us?

I'll use myself so that we can talk about this thing.

Maybe that's arrogant.

I don't know.

What I can't imagine being arrogant enough to do is be interested in the human experience and only use other people as specimens.

I can barely... I can't... No, I shouldn't say I can barely.

I can't even truly figure out my own motives or emotions or drives or ambitions or faults.

I sure as hell would never purport to publicly try to understand someone else's.

I would never, ever look at someone else's art or life or something...

and write pieces about that person, analyze that person's motives, take apart that person's life and feelings and whatever, and come up with some kind of premise about that person.

To me, that is far more arrogant than using your own life and saying, I am really interested about this, and I would like to create a campfire for us all to talk about it around, so I'm going to use myself and never you.