The Loop

by Jeremy Robert Johnson

Lucy wondered where she might be at that exact moment if she hadn’t spent so much time trying to be the right version of herself for those around her.

OUCH relatable

All of that requires that they do what you’re talking about: destroying our empathy and reducing our faith in reason. Those guys on the border laughed when they let you through because you’re not even human to them. You’re a unit of something else. They rename you ‘test subject’ or ‘enemy,’ or they assign you a race or a nation or a class—and then they don’t have to think about you anymore.