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Have we, as a society, become so feelings-phobic that we pretend to live life, much like the walking dead, without ever feeling humanity? Since we all have experienced some sort of trauma and fear its repetition, do we resort to amassing an impenetrable emotional wall, hoping it will protect us from ever hurting again, feeling again, and truly living again? And in this state of deadness, are we necrophilically pretending to love, engaging in emotionalities that are often rendered mere sentimentalities or saccharin expressions of what we truly feel, as if false niceness is enough?
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Matias, C.E. (2016). Conclusions for Feeling Again. In: Feeling White. Cultural Pluralism Democracy, Socio-environmental justice & Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-450-3_12
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