‘Belittle’: the word has grown in use over the last three years. Why are we obssessed with being belittled? Why so insecure? Could it be our excessive self-regard? EVERYTHING ABOUT ME IS IMPORTANT, how dare you not treat my trivia as important?
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‘Empathy’: there is a trend to demand empathy at all times. But real empathy is hard. You need to look the other person in the eyes. Empathy is not the only moral category, nor the most important. Today, we pretend empathy.
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We struggle to be ‘world class’, which means that we should compete on an abstracted quantative table (“10 world class cities”). But everything tasty and loveable and beautiful is small and modest. The world seeks, like Italian cooking, the local, which truly is ‘world class’.
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