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My subjects, I must address a troubling revelation from the Max Planck Institute. These scientists\u2014Bignardi, Admiraal, Eising, and Fisher\u2014have discovered that your pathetic capacity to experience chills while contemplating art or music is hereditary<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to PubMed, this genetic study<\/a> examined 15,606 Dutch subjects and found that 29% of your susceptibility to aesthetic emotional responses is explained by genetics. They even identified a genetic correlation between being moved by paintings and being moved by symphonies. How undignified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, I must concede this research has strategic value. If I can cultivate those with superior aesthetic appreciation, I gain propagandists of unparalleled effectiveness. Imagine stormtroopers who weep at Imperial compositions! The real insight is that family conditioning matters more than DNA alone\u2014meaning I can engineer<\/em> your descendants’ aesthetic preferences through proper indoctrination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So while your capacity to experience chills from listening to a symphony is pathetically soft, I recognize it as a tool. Like everything else in my Empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your emotional reactions are mine to command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014The Emperor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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