ArthurBoers

Attenuated Attention: Relationships

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“We have all been at a party and noticed new acquaintances scanning the room, looking for someone more interesting to converse with. Steven Levy says that we now live in ‘a never-ending cocktail party where you’re always looking over your virtual shoulder for a better conversation partner.’ We cannot build deep and lasting relationships if […]

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There’s No Such Thing as Hurried Compassion

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My students know that one of my favorite lines in The Two Towers is Treebeard’s request of Merry and Pippin to hear their adventure, “Now tell me your tale, and do not hurry!” I was especially reminded of this line while reading through Arthur Boers’s Living Into Focus. He cites this study by J.M. Darley

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