The main point here (in my opinion) is that this treatment is extremely speculative. If Jobs himself was alive, he could comment. As it is, many will probably treat this as definitive.

The lack in my particular dominant culture would probably fall under the category of “spirituality” if you forced me to choose between the three words, though as an atheist it’s not an unproblematic word for me. Really it’s kind of just stuffing me into one of three boxes, fine if you like that sort of thing. What I responded to was texts, mostly. If you think I could’ve found equivalencies to those texts in my dominant culture you’re having a laugh.

As Coco Fusco put it, “That sense of entitlement to choose, change, and redefine one’s identity is fundamental to understanding the history of how white America has formed ideas about itself, and how those ideas are linked first to a colonial enterprise, and, in the postwar period, to the operations of decentralized mass culture.”

“The invectives against political correctness mask what motivates white attraction to cultures and peoples designated as Other, and diverts our attention from looking at how ‘difference’ acts as an antidote to a perceived absence of spirituality, vitality, or erotic pleasure in the dominant culture.”

From “Who’s Doin’ the Twist? Notes toward a politics of appropriation,” in _English is Broken Here_.

The temporal jump between pages 15 and 16, and page 16′s haunting portrait of Steve at the Cupertino city council meeting the summer before he died made it get a little dusty in the room for me.

“They just work.”

I should certainly hope so.

Also, when they don’t give Otogawa’s given name a long vowel they sound like they are saying this.

That said, I hope the author doesn’t face a trademark suit.