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Is It Better to Know?

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The Difference Between the What and the Why

Knowing something can produce these effects that are so diametrically opposing to one my initial sense is that there's a threshold, if you will, a sort of emotional and psychological threshold that once you cross it is not helpful. And in many ways, it is unhelpful to continue to expose yourself to images of violence which feel so profoundly intimate. That over saturation can turn into a sort of paralysis. It actually has this effect of accretion where it just feels like your being buried under this pile of stones. But the whyad when i hear you tell the story about what you did in the classroom, ofwhat you did in the prison, to me that that knowledge is less about the...

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