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Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 12:55 am (UTC)
both fascinating and sad, especially since you'd think the feeling of power without the actual ability to affect people's lives would be the best of all possible worlds.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 01:30 am (UTC)
well, people like to feel powerful; the downside is that that is usually achieved at the cost of their actually having to have power over other people, to those other people's detriment. i would have guessed that something that let us feel powerful without having any actual power would be ideal, but according to the article it would still harm our capacity for empathy.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 02:32 am (UTC)
i assumed that wasn't the kind of power they were talking about, because it's not the "power corrupts" sort. it's totally the kind everyone should be pursuing instead, i agree!