I got a camera to spy on my cat - and it made me question everything about myself

We document everything obsessively. And implicit in this compulsion is the suspicion that our lives are best understood at a distance - but what do we lose? This summer I bought two in-home security cameras. I told people I got them because my cat was sick, and I required on-demand proof he was still alive. But the truth is, I just wanted to spy on him. There's something about a cat sitting by itself on a couch, staring into the middle distance in an empty room, that is inherently funny. What ar...