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161. Sentiment

The Allusionist

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Empathy and Storytelling

Empathy is venerated as the way to draw in an audience and explain something about the world. But has anythin actually changed? Has our compassion actually grown? Have we reckoned with our own undigested grief? Probably no. And so it creates the sense of having done something, when in fact, all we've heard is a story.

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