It’s perfectly normal to seek an emotional filter today.
Emotions are often perceived as uncontrollable, but they can be managed through careful understanding and a cool, neutral perspective.
Emotions can be exploited, causing harm, especially in political and mass media contexts.
Art can also exploit emotions, such as the pseudo-sad piano melodies often used in cheap movies to evoke suffering.
Pure art and real life, on the other hand, provides straightforward explorations of feelings rather than manipulation.
For instance, a filter could be formed through indifference and neutrality (the famous “I just don’t care” soap), as well as awareness of the universal scale and our disproportionate relationship to it.
This awareness can also bring to light our own mortality and the fact that many people are imperfect and only seek to manipulate and sell us something rather than seeking universal usefulness and truth.
Any filter can barely touch the pure and genuine emotion; it finds its place deeply within. You simply try to maintain their higher quality, stability…