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S4E1 Trauma: Creating Beauty in the Bomb Craters of our Lives

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The Irony of Trauma

We are paying greater and greater attention to the pain of our lives. We need to recognize on one hand that just because we become more aware of things doesn't mean that we necessarily categorically become better at not perpetrating it. Steven Pinker famously wrote a book called Our Better Angels in which he talked about the hope and optimism that he has because of the relative decrease in violence over the course of human history. But there is a certain irony to how we are living.

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