Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! This week's question comes, as always, from Gregory Stock's The Book of Questions. And I'll be honest — when I landed on this one, I laughed out loud a little, because it manages to be both completely absurd and uncomfortably pointed at … Continue reading Question of the Week #488
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Question of the Week #487
Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! This week's question comes, as always, from Gregory Stock's The Book of Questions — and it arrives as something of a follow-up to last week's question about regrets and hypothetical deathbed inventories. If last week's question asked you to look backward, this … Continue reading Question of the Week #487
Question of the Week #486
Welcome back to another Question of the Week here at The Confusing Middle! This week's question comes from Gregory Stock's The Book of Questions, and it's a heavy one. Not "heavier than last week's Antarctic survival scenario" heavy — although that question did force me to confront some unflattering truths about my capacity for sustained … Continue reading Question of the Week #486
Question of the Week #484
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
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
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