WHO “WE” HAVE BECOME

The penultimate section of the Preface to this book was headed “Who 'We' Are.” Now that we think about it, the description we gave back there was a bit presumptuous. We wrote it, but moved into the next nine months of work and ten chapters that make up this book. Somewhere along the way (about a month into the work and Chapter Two), it began to haunt us. Who really are “WE”?

We don't go to parties much, but when we do, we dread the question: “So what do you do?” It is unanswerable. We've tried to answer the question, but after a minute of what will clearly be a long-winded response, the person looks for someone else to talk to, because it takes too much investment to get an answer to a question that might have been cursory ...

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