I certainly know the phenomenon in which people are upset or sad or angry or despairing in response to world events, seemingly-to-me as a way to make a personal payment that finishes their responsibility in the world those events play out in.
I very much doubt you were depressed in that style.
One does have emotional responses to world events and conditions and systems. They're not always transactional.
Do silence and emptiness work better for you than attempting sympathetic imagination? <- real question
(Of course sympathetic imagination is limited and imperfect at best. Of course it can give rise to cocksure condescension and abuse-- "If I were in your place....".)
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I very much doubt you were depressed in that style.
One does have emotional responses to world events and conditions and systems. They're not always transactional.
Do silence and emptiness work better for you than attempting sympathetic imagination? <- real question
(Of course sympathetic imagination is limited and imperfect at best. Of course it can give rise to cocksure condescension and abuse-- "If I were in your place....".)
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