About this episode

This episode explores the ethics of reading and the implications of our reading habits on conscience and empathy.

Is your reading just an “escape”?? Your favorite “escape” read might be a gated community for your conscience. Today, we interrogate the “Catharsis Commodity” and ask if our reading habits are just another layer of the Hideous Bargain. Explore the ethics of reading and the “Empathy Trap” in this look at the arguments of […]

People in this episode

Host: Steve Chisnell

Topics covered

• ethics of reading
• Catharsis Commodity
• Empathy Trap
• reading habits
• conscience
• Hideous Bargain

Keywords

• reading
• ethics
• Catharsis Commodity
• Empathy Trap
• conscience
• Hideous Bargain

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