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TEDx Pascal Gielen – Culture and senseless violence

TEDx Pascal Gielen – Culture and senseless violence

What does your cup of coffee in the morning have to do with senseless violence? Everything, according to Pascal Gielen (1970), director of the research center Arts in Society at the Groningen University. Where culture provides rituals, habits and other ways to make our lives…

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TEDx Menno de Bree – Happiness is impossible

TEDx Menno de Bree – Happiness is impossible

It takes guts to walk up to about 500 people and tell them that happiness is impossible. Menno de Bree (1974) did just that, and got applauded for it too. We should not aim for happiness, but minimize our unhappiness. Menno starts by stating that…

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