Empathy and the Homo Sapiens: Facilitating Compassion for Idiots in an Idiotic Time

Empathy and the Homo Sapiens: Facilitating Compassion for Idiots in an Idiotic Time

Performing the self through solo performance mixed with the methodologies of Ritual Poetic Drama and Stand Up Comedy can be therapeutic and transformative for the performer and the audience. Artists must continue to defend empathy's crucial necessity for healing trauma of all kinds. Empath natu...

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Main Author: Mahaney, Arthur H
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2019
Online Access:https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5921
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spelling ndltd-vcu.edu-oai-scholarscompass.vcu.edu-etd-69572019-10-20T22:09:26Z Empathy and the Homo Sapiens: Facilitating Compassion for Idiots in an Idiotic Time Mahaney, Arthur H Performing the self through solo performance mixed with the methodologies of Ritual Poetic Drama and Stand Up Comedy can be therapeutic and transformative for the performer and the audience. Artists must continue to defend empathy's crucial necessity for healing trauma of all kinds. Empath nature and addictive behavior can be positive tools for change, and the journey of transformation is a long and beautiful one. Solo performance and Stand Up Comedy affect the human condition and should encourage an audience to examine the moral compass from which they are guided. In these idiotic times we live in, Homo sapiens could use all the help we can get. 2019-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5921 https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6957&context=etd © Arthur Hobgood Mahaney Theses and Dissertations VCU Scholars Compass
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description Performing the self through solo performance mixed with the methodologies of Ritual Poetic Drama and Stand Up Comedy can be therapeutic and transformative for the performer and the audience. Artists must continue to defend empathy's crucial necessity for healing trauma of all kinds. Empath nature and addictive behavior can be positive tools for change, and the journey of transformation is a long and beautiful one. Solo performance and Stand Up Comedy affect the human condition and should encourage an audience to examine the moral compass from which they are guided. In these idiotic times we live in, Homo sapiens could use all the help we can get.
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