Scene 5 from Love, Sex, and Corporate Slavery: Scene download

What we say when we're too afraid to say anything.

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There’s a strange kind of intimacy in speaking only in clichés.
It’s safe. Familiar. Nobody gets hurt. Nobody gets seen.
But it goes in circles.
Annoyingly. Frustratingly.
No real conflict, no real resolution.

In Scene 5 of Love, Sex, and Corporate Slavery, I wanted to explore what happens when two people who are trapped by systems, expectations, or each other, use language not to connect, but to deflect.

They speak entirely in idioms. Phrases we've all heard.
It’s corporate, it’s romantic, it’s empty.