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\u2026Turkle here is indicating that there is a strong connection between empathy and solitude. I am reminded (beyond Louis CK<\/a>) of Pascal\u2019s famous line about humanity\u2019s problems consisting of \u201cman\u2019s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.\u201d (Two Pascal lines this week?!<\/a>) Turkle here\u00a0conveys\u00a0the human need\u00a0to sit down with one\u2019s self, to deal with one\u2019s self, and while she doesn\u2019t cover any religious dimensions, it is where prayer happens. For Christianity in particular, this is where repentance<\/em> can happen, where we confront\u00a0things we\u2019ve done and things\u00a0we\u2019ve left undone. Here, in a\u00a0discomforting self-appraisal, is\u00a0the root of\u00a0empathy with another human being.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
more<\/a>\u2013and I\u2019m not a smoker, but my sense is that one of the attractions of smoking is precisely that it creates a certain private space for reflection. Where nobody will ask you what you\u2019re doing, because you\u2019re smoking, that\u2019s what you\u2019re doing. (As with a lot of things we do, if you want to stop doing it it often helps to figure out what you\u2019re getting from it<\/a> and try to get that in a more honest\/humiliating way.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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