Some victims get candles, others silence – it’s a leader’s choice. A deep dive into the staged politics of selective pity in three arenas
George Orwell famously remarked, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
In the brutal realities of war and suffering, where borrowed beliefs replace independent thought, Orwell’s warning cuts to the core: liberty is a hollow promise if it shields us from truths we resist.
1. How to break free of black-and-white propaganda
True compassion demands stories that challenge our biases and stretch our empathy beyond neat binary tales of “good” and “evil.”…
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