The idea that a society can become insulated from the suffering and misery of others, in essence oblivious and clueless, and believe that what they are doing is right.
This happens constantly in the world. There’s something happening right now, which I won’t mention, and the people inflicting the injustice are blind to it.
We are all guilty to some extent of doing this in some form or another, which is the lesson that I took away from reading this book.
by Aqualung1
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They are not insulated from suffering and misery. They’re insulated from **every strong feeling of their own**. And anyone who can’t be insulated is quietly eliminated. Mercifully. Without emotion.
The point seemed to me to be that you cannot know what it is to live, if you cannot feel. This is a case of magic is technology we can’t understand. >!All the Giver has to do is move outside the perimeter.!<