> When we engage with art, we don’t just passively observe; we absorb perspectives, emotions, and experiences beyond our own. This deepened sense of connection

> When we engage with art, we don’t just passively observe; we absorb perspectives, emotions, and experiences beyond our own. This deepened sense of connection can move us to act, to care, to help those in pain—something the numbing cycle of doomscrolling rarely inspires. Tangentially related - Aristotle noticed all of this and wrote about it in relation to plays in The Poetics ... except for the doomscrolling bit, that wasn't available yet. He ties it even more deeply than "act, care" - he says it moves us towards virtue or vice.