In Cambridge, a group of students in a course called The Decolonization of Hearing, were told that classical music was an instrument of imperialism. There’s even a course called, Music, Power, Empire. The faculty of musicology, at the requests of students, puts up warnings that some topics might hurt or offend, because in some janners like opera, racial stereotypes thrive. I thought that music was above all this. • It is known that empathy is the ability to feel the world of another as your own. That is, we are literally able to feel someone elses pain. Psychology syas, if we experience empathetic pain for a long period of time, emotional exhaustion often sets in. When feeling compassion, we also feel someone else's pain, but we are able to endure it because compassion is with love. That’s the whole difference. By learning, developing compassion, humanity could help neautralize the suffering of others.

Antisemitism on Campuses: Is waving the Israeli flag in front of Arab students considered provocation? •Monkeypox: Are we on the verge of a new global epidemic? • Violence in Hospitals: Why are people starting to get violent in emergency rooms? • Recognizing the Palestinian Nakba: What stems from the erosion of support for Israel among Democrats? • Technology that Turns a Short Sentence into a Spectacular Painting: Are machines capable of reaching creative thinking?

The experience of shopping brings us pleasure, excitement, success, and status. In addition, Internet purchases create the anticipation of delivery, and the excitement of opening the box. The nature of the will to receive is to always desire to acquire something new. The more we receive, the more we enjoy. It’s not that we swallow the object itself, but rather we swallow the pleasure we receive from acquiring it. We need to ask ourselves what is needed for life, and plan ahead to buy only that, not what the advertisers persuade us will bring pleasure. Otherwise we find ourselves surrounded by objects that just gather dust, while the emptiness of our will to receive remains. We should educate children by example and teach them to seek inner fulfillments that don’t cost money—books, music, games, sports, relationships, and conversation. Healthy consumerism is buying only what we truly need and raising our importance for attaining inner assets.