What happens when we stop thinking of people as people and start thinking of them as statistics? In an increasingly online world — where many interact with people online more than in real life — the subjective experience of others is being forgotten. In this piece, Nicholas Smyth argues that the internet and other modern trends have created a new, modern dysfunction. The antidote is to re-emphasise the subjective experience of others. Writing from California in 1916, Alexander Berkman offered this observation:There is double the pathos for us in the death of one little New York waif from hunger than there is in a million deaths from famine in China. It is not … that a fe…
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