#have i felt my own empathy eroded away in the name of consuming content and media?? absolutely
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watched a video essay about the hunger games and am now struck by the power of human empathy and kindness
#crying at 11:30 about the hunger games everyone#books i hadnt read until last year and movies i havent watched yet#have the hunger games always served as a mirror to us american society and television? yes#have they only grown more and more uncanny as time goes on?? also yes#have i felt my own empathy eroded away in the name of consuming content and media?? absolutely#does looking at these books that imbue every page with the idea that it is empathy and kindness that causes change literally bring me to#tears??? yeah yeah it does#its hope and the ability to be like hey empathy is a muscle i have to stretch#kindness is a muscle i have to stretch#and its possible to do that!!!!!#and even the smallest act of kindness and empathy and respect can change lives and the world and etc etc#k mumbles#idk its very easy to lose hope in the current world and those books genuinely make a very good argument for not doing that#the hunger games#thg
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