The Luxury Handbag: Humanity’s Favorite Portable Delusion
If aliens ever land and ask humanity to explain itself, we should hand them a luxury handbag. It’s the perfect artifact—an object that encapsulates everything absurd, brilliant, and self‑contradictory about our species. It’s a stitched leather rectangle that costs more than a month’s rent, designed to carry the same items as a grocery tote. It is the ultimate paradox: a vessel of emptiness that somehow overflows with meaning.
