“Like Job, I hold dearly my blamelessness. Ariana tried to take it away from me. For a moment she succeeded. I lost my sense of impermeability to the corruption of the world. I saw I had been infected by corruption and in attempt to avoid further suffering I was doing the virus’ bidding. I felt as if Ariana and I were in a power struggle. I’m not sure she was aware of this, as I kept my camera off through the duration of the course. Opaque College set me straight again. They helped me develop a practice of dopamine maxxing to flood my system with enough chemicals that I am numb to the suffering of the human condition. This numbing is an age-old tradition that our contemporary culture provides increasing tools for and for this I am grateful.”