Why
asking why?
A note from the editor. Why not ask why? It makes us uneasy to realise we are a passive part of a system we did not design and cannot quite see; it forces us to step back and question the existence of things we had agreed to stop noticing. We are conditioned, gently and constantly, to make decisions that are not in our own interest.
do feel
the why?
01 — She left the shoes on the grass. Nobody asked her to. That is the whole picture.
This journal exists for those questions. Not the loud ones — the quiet, slightly embarrassing ones that you only ask when no one is timing you. Why this, and not something else? Why now?
Why does the machine make me anxious and the camera does not, when both are only tools in a pair of hands? We will not answer them well. We will, at least, ask them out loud, which is more than most schedules allow.
— The editor, on a bench in the park.