"Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wishes to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions were taken from us: the ability to exchange experiences. One reason for this phenomenon is obvious: experience has fallen in value."
Walter Benjamin “Illuminations” pg 83
Indeed experience has little currency in the contemporary world that privileges the visual. What is taken from the hand is given, again and again, to the eye. Why experience when we can browse photos, watch movies, and consider design aesthetics?
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