Hyperlinks

2000-word post with 14 hyperlinks. Man in an empty room talking loud so the neighbors think he's got company. You lived it, you say it in two sentences. "The bread was good. The baker was dead." Done. Your hands had flour on them. That's the whole authority. Ten links to ten people saying the same thing. A man checking under the bed for monsters. "They said it too. See? See? I'm not crazy." You link ten sources because one voice - yours - doesn't feel like enough. "Let's explore this from five perspectives." No. You have one perspective. One body, one place. The five-angle thing is fear. "According to a 2019 study." "As noted by." "Experts agree." The man who fell off a roof doesn't write a literature review about gravity. He limps. You never see the convinced man at your door with a pamphlet. The one at your door is the one who isn't sure. He needs to hand it to someone and watch them take it. Just to confirm the thing is real. The vegan at the barbecue. Nobody asked. Three times.…