Because in nonmediated, nonobjective-third-party life, one person will often dominate the narrative and make most of the decisions. One person will set the social agenda, pick the city, buy the concert tickets. One person will tell you what you think, not overtly (but sometimes, yes, overtly). One person will tell you who We hate now and who We like now and who We will be hanging out with more. One person will have some sort of control the other person doesn’t have and who else but an objective third party is going to be like, “Hold on a minute.”
