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The Treachery of Words in the Western World

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It strikes this author that our word choices play a huge role in how we regard the people around us: how we intellectually evaluate their personalities, their character, and their "behaviors", and then, too, how we also feel about them--in other words, our emotional reactions to others. Finally, they surely affect our overall emotions for hours or days after any particular contact with someone--particularly, whether we feel anger or not. (Such might be termed "blaming", "resentment", "bitterness", and so on.) I wish to put forth my observations, thus, that it appears to me that those persons with a high level of empathy use a completely different set of vocabulary words--or, in essence, do not use many "descriptive" words from the Western World's vocabulary set, at all--preferring to use mainly intuition, instead; whereas those individuals with low empathy not only utilize existing Western terms, laden with blaming and overall anger, but additionally appear not to be particularly troubled by the "negative" emotions that such terms stir up in themselves.And furthermore, I have then observed that the lack of "suitable" terms in our Western world is in fact highly problematic for the empathic ("kind") person, inasmuch as intuition alone appears to hardly be up to the task of dealing with modern complex societies, with their tremendous variety (complexity) and massive rate of change and overall rate of speed in which life takes place nowadays.

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Independently Published
874196389Y / 9798741963890
Paperback / softback
22/06/2021
34 pages
152 x 229 mm, 77 grams
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