1868 || the emotion economy

Emotions circulate and accumulate value across our society through repetition. We must pay attention to what these emotions DO rather than what they ARE.

We assign emotional values to things because of the way we're taught in our culture. Our emotions orient us towards or away from certain bodies. It allows us to justify biases against entire groups of people because it becomes the cultural norm.

Unfortunately, there are very bad people who take advantage of this cultural shaping through emotions. They weaponize hatred by co-opting language and making themselves the victims so that we can't help the TRUE victims.

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