even anonymous kindness is a buzz that can be abused — "That anonymous generosity, too, can be…"
That anonymous generosity, too, can be abused.
Context
The cage's mechanism traced even into virtue: secret, credit-free kindness delivers its own intoxicating buzz — and so, the litany notes without missing a beat, generosity too can be abused. The insight is unsettling precisely because it's hopeful and corrosive at once: the addict's wiring doesn't disappear in sobriety, it just finds cleaner things to compulsively chase.