The Academic Corner
Tonight, I'm listening to a podcast on empathy. The argument is that empathy is declining. Neoliberalism has a big role in its demise. Listen along with me, here:
Seeing things in unhabitual ways.
"They knew, for their own good reasons, what the world was like, and their experience acted as a filter through which any new message was tested, confirmed, rejected, challenged, and reinterpreted. Changing their minds would have meant changing the world they experienced, not simply convincing them of a new set of ideals around equality of opportunity and the desirability of a different world." - Kessler, Ashenden, Connell and Dowsett (1985)
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