Helen Razer (2015) | Against Compassion

An episode of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas podcast, hosted by Festival of Dangerous Ideas, titled "Helen Razer (2015) | Against Compassion" was published on April 26, 2020 and runs 39 minutes.

April 26, 2020 ·39m · Festival of Dangerous Ideas

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Compassion has become a commodity whose possession marks us as a better person, or better than other people.

Writer and commentator Helen Razer diagnoses society with compassion fatigue – and the physical burn out, trauma and psychological depletion is real.

Helen Razer is a writer, broadcaster and commentator who is now chiefly engaged in the work of writing on social and cultural matters. She works with Crikey, The Saturday Paper and a range of publications who permit her to say terrible things. Her fifth book, A Short History of Stupid, remains a best-seller and was recently shortlisted for the NSW State Library's inaugural Russell Prize.

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