Fernando answers “I never really got what the empathy box...”

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I never really got what the empathy box was or what it did?

Fernando "The fact that the media in the book debunked Mercerism doesn't matter, because the fact is that even though Mercerism may be created in a video studi…more"The fact that the media in the book debunked Mercerism doesn't matter, because the fact is that even though Mercerism may be created in a video studio, the emotions transmitted through the machine are real, and gives users something to believe in and hold onto in this depressing future."

AKA: The placebo effect created by any religion in the real world. Brilliant Philip K. Dick(less)

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Aleister Brooks Another "opium of the masses". Marx (and Nietzsche too, despite being atheists) realized that religion did provide comfort to human beings. ...more
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