Hell of a Book

by Jason Mott

And let’s face it: in this world that we live in, the fact of the matter is that it’s hard to think of anyone as being real. Everyone is just an image on a screen somewhere. Even the people that we meet and come across in the flesh eventually get reduced down to an image on a screen as we interact with them and their social media. So when Sharon shows Jack and me the grieving family on the screen, I can only offer up the normal amount of concern for these people who I have never met and will never meet. And that’s okay. That’s what people are. Science has proven that there’s a limited number of people that we can ever actually care about. It’s just a limitation of our brain and our emotions. So there’s nothing wrong with that. It doesn’t make you a bad person.

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