conspicuous company present rewritten by elli siora
6th week tt17
“Don’t you love this?”
“Love what, exactly?”
“You know those conversations you have with someone you don’t know? I mean my work doesn’t depend on my relationship with you, I don’t have to see you every day… I don’t have to see you ever again if I didn’t want to.”
“Cheers.”
“All I’m saying is, I don’t have to be anyone you want me to be, neither do you - so we’re actually honest?”
“Yes.”
“Sorry. I’m a little drunk. Am I freaking you out?”
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We are the liberal generation when it comes to relationships. No labels? No drama. Right? Rewritten explores the line between ‘easygoingness’ and dishonesty, and the delusions that can fester in the moments which we leave undiscussed. Moving through a series of fragmented exchanges between two individuals ‘casually’ sleeping together at university it seems ‘post-truth’ can manifest itself in the personal. How much of what we’re seeing is, and how much of it is simply what we want it to be?
“Love what, exactly?”
“You know those conversations you have with someone you don’t know? I mean my work doesn’t depend on my relationship with you, I don’t have to see you every day… I don’t have to see you ever again if I didn’t want to.”
“Cheers.”
“All I’m saying is, I don’t have to be anyone you want me to be, neither do you - so we’re actually honest?”
“Yes.”
“Sorry. I’m a little drunk. Am I freaking you out?”
***
We are the liberal generation when it comes to relationships. No labels? No drama. Right? Rewritten explores the line between ‘easygoingness’ and dishonesty, and the delusions that can fester in the moments which we leave undiscussed. Moving through a series of fragmented exchanges between two individuals ‘casually’ sleeping together at university it seems ‘post-truth’ can manifest itself in the personal. How much of what we’re seeing is, and how much of it is simply what we want it to be?