James Sexton

Yeah, but that's dominion that's caretaking.

That's, you know, you have power over an animal.

But actually, to some degree, like, the fact that they're so powerless...

is I think part of the beauty of it is that they they're they're just powerless and trembling before us and that's I think what inspires in us such compassion and love you know and it because they don't really have anything to offer us other than love.

They don't have any other agenda, really.

They have a very simple agenda.

They wanna eat, they wanna sleep with you, they wanna cuddle.

They have a very simple agenda.

And I think that makes them less scary.

Humans are scary because there's just so much going on.

I know how much is going on in me.

You know how much is going on in you.

And if we imagine, okay, you're like that too, then it's like, how hard is it to know yourself?

Much less another person.

Hmm, you know, so I think some of it is that yeah that there's a complexity to human beings, but again that doesn't have to be like Because fundamentally, I don't know if you've watched this, you know, we you and I share some of the same literary preferences some of the same affection for certain music Did you watch love on the spectrum?

Yes loved it.

Okay, like that show made me cry multiple times

with just how beautiful it is.

Because I spend so much of my time with people that have a lot of demands of their relationship and then a lot of demands in the ending of their relationship.

And of course, in the relationship space, like working in the relationship space now and talking about it, I talk to a lot of people about like what it is they want in a partner and what it is they want in a relationship.