How a reductive worldview is stripping meaning from our most valued activities This article was originally published as The six-second hug on Aeon.co How a reductive worldview is stripping meaning from our most valued activities This article was originally published as The six-second hug on Aeon.co F or decades, films out of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios have opened with Leo the roaring lion, garlanded with the motto ars gratia artis : art for art’s sake. Given that MGM is a money-making