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BelgianMadCow

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Reply to marmar (Original post)

Thu Nov 28, 2013, 03:38 PM

Nov 2013

Can art save the world? Judging by the skyrocketing sales of 1984 and the frequent satirical use of newspeak, hell yes, even decades after the fact.

Art is an antidote to lack of imagination, which is often the basis for a lack of empathy, which at the heart of many problems.

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