Step 2: The Democratization of Empathy
The artisans realized that conflict stems from the "Othering" of neighbors. They began the Project of Visual Dialogue. They used lithography and screen printing to mass-produce posters and pamphlets that captured the lived realities of distant cultures.
Imagine a soldier on the border receiving a printed broadsheet. It wasn't propaganda; it was a high-resolution, artistic rendering of a family in the enemy territory eating dinner, tending a garden, or mourning a loss. By printing the human experience in vivid, tactile detail, the press made it impossible to view "the enemy" as an abstract monster. Artistic printing turned the mirror on humanity, making indifference a logistical impossibility.
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