Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! This week's question is about connection — and what we actually need from other people when the options get stripped down to almost nothing. If you had to spend the next two years in a small, fully provisioned Antarctic shelter with one … Continue reading Question of the Week #484
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Question of the Week #484
Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! We've spent the last three weeks letting Gregory Stock slowly dismantle my self-image through a series of escalating bargains involving starving children and my internet connection. This week, he puts down the rhetorical sledgehammer and asks something a little more personal. Less … Continue reading Question of the Week #484
Question of the Week #483
Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! For the past two weeks, Gregory Stock has been making us sit with a version of the same uncomfortable bargain: give something up for five years, and one thousand children will be permanently saved from starvation. Week one, it was the internet. … Continue reading Question of the Week #483
Question of the Week #482
Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! Last week, Gregory Stock asked us whether we'd be willing to give up the internet for five years if doing so meant that one thousand children would be permanently provided for, saved from starvation. I said no — uncomfortably, honestly, without a … Continue reading Question of the Week #482
Question of the Week #481
Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! This week, Gregory Stock puts something in front of us that sounds, on its surface, like the easiest question in the world. Of course you'd say yes. Of course you would. What kind of person would even hesitate? And yet — the … Continue reading Question of the Week #481
Question of the Week #480
Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! This week, Gregory Stock asks us to sit with something that feels, on the surface, like a pretty simple hypothetical — but the more you actually think about it, the more layers it seems to have. Before we get there, a quick … Continue reading Question of the Week #480
Question of the Week #479
Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! Last week, Gregory Stock sent us down a fairly spooky rabbit hole, asking whether we believe in ghosts or evil spirits — and then, as a follow-up, whether we'd be willing to spend a night alone in a remote, supposedly haunted house. … Continue reading Question of the Week #479
Question of the Week #478
Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! Last week, Gregory Stock asked whether I'd wear a voice-activated safety watch that tracked my whereabouts and could summon police with a shout — and then followed it up by asking if I'd use that watch to create a minute-by-minute archive of … Continue reading Question of the Week #478
Question of the Week #477
Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! Last week, Gregory Stock asked if I'd wear a voice-activated safety watch that tracked my whereabouts and could summon police with a shout. My answer was a pretty definitive "no"—partly because I don't wear watches, partly because my wrist breaks out in … Continue reading Question of the Week #477
Question of the Week #476
Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! After two consecutive weeks of Gregory Stock wading us into the deep, uncomfortable waters of attraction, race, religion, and culture, I have to admit I was hoping for something a little lighter this time around. Maybe something about favorite foods. Or whether … Continue reading Question of the Week #476
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