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“My life is suspended above an abyss of ignorance . . . I live whit happily hemmed in on all sides by an impenetrable wall of technological riddles. I do not know how the toilet flushes or why water comes out of my faucet or what makes my Hoover suck up dust, and yet—to my credit—I continue to flush, wash my dishes, and vacuum, entirely unaware of how I am doing these things”

Cuteness, in short, is not something we find in our children but something we do to them. Because it aestheticizes unhappiness, helplessness, and deformity, it almost always involves an act of sadism on the part of its creator, who makes an unconscious attempt to maim, hobble, and embarrass the thing he seeks to idolize.