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Shame does not feel good. It’s understandable we’d want to avoid it. We have entire social systems and norms in place to do so. Even so, shame has served as a productive tool, a hermeneutic element of being human. We learn a lot from shame. But in recent years, shame has instead been replaced with something far more trivial. Shame has been traded for embarrassment.
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