#ChrisHedges analysis of what's happening in the world and what #theResistance should look like.
#GifsArtidote :
This is a historic lecture which contains lessons now, and for future generations, if we last that long.
#press #news #opinion #GlobalNews #BreakingNews #BlackMastodon #GlobalSouthMastodon #educate #organise #resist #empathy #solidarity
#ChrisHedges analysis of what's happening in the world and what #theResistance should look like.
#GifsArtidote :
This is a historic lecture which contains lessons now, and for future generations, if we last that long.
#press #news #opinion #BreakingNews #BlackMastodon #GlobalSouthMastodon #educate #organise #resist #empathy #solidarity #revolution
Dan McClellan is a BYU Bible scholar. He's chosen the correct fork in the great divide of these times. This is a good talk on empathy's role in society.
#psychology #empathy #exmo #exmormon #lds #mormon #AbuseCulture
How ‘ecological empathy’ can help humans reconnect with nature and shape a better world https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025/03/how-ecological-empathy-can-help-humans-reconnect-with-nature-and-shape-a-better-world/
Decoding the neural basis of affective empathy: How the brain feels others' pain https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250310134213.htm
As carers, we don't need anyone imposing their judgment on us. We welcome those who offer #empathy and tangible support.
Empathy is a level of awareness that takes account of the subjective experience of other conscious agents. The empath can act on feedback from those conscious agents (and develop deductions and projections based on that feedback) to create real and subjective extra sensory nodes in their informational network about the world. Their brains adjust to the expanded information environment and the sociality of the inputs inure against "exploits". Those without that awareness or the will to develop it, even if they remain for a while ephemerally alive, are fundamentally and permanently deadened to that level of awareness (and to that extent render themselves and their consciousness dead), and act as a force for death in the world. When people like this die from organismic life, the world is fertilised and energised with the repressed life energies of all that organism was blind to. In a very real and literal sense, lack of empathy is the only culpable disability.
#oligarchs #elonmusk #uspol #uspoli #empathy
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A tweet from Russell Dobular, with the handle @russelldobular, features two quotes on a black background. The first quote is attributed to Elon Musk: "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." The second quote is attributed to Hannah Arendt: "The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." The tweet was posted at 7:02 AM on March 8, 2025, and has 194,000 views.
Agreed 100%!
...except that we need more than #truebeliever types to turn the corner that the #USA has put itself in here.
If #empathy will pull, let's say 3-5%...well if we had had that 3-5% showing up at the polls last November then we'd be in a better, at least less bad, place right now.
So I agree with you but we need more than just you and me so let's use the empathy angle as needed or at least let others use it.
We really gotta stop listening to people who call our greatest strength our greatest weakness.
Setting the heart pieces aside, setting the morality aside, setting the edicts of whatever God you believe in (because almost all of them, through their prophets, call us towards empathy) aside?
Empathy let us hunt the mammoth and live. It let us survive the long winter. It let us keep the knowledge of what was good and baneful with the tribe when the knowledge lived in the heads of those too old or infirm to hunt, fish, or gather. It let us grow into predators of terrifying ferocity and efficacy without winnowing our own gene pool past the survivability threshold. It let us augment our own capacity with that of the wolf. With that of that of the horse. With that of the auroch. It let us find the path to turn competitors scrabbling for resources into awe-inspiring nations. To turn bloody fields into festival grounds. To turn monsters into neighbors. When we pierced the secret of the atom and discovered life and death themselves inside it, empathy is the only reason we ever had a smidgen of a prayer of a chance of choosing life, four generations on, still going.
Do not listen to people who call our greatest strength our greatest weakness. Their ideas are not only dangerous; they're profoundly, profoundly stupid.
@antifaintl Fantastic juxtaposition - powerful support for the case that capitalism is a Darwinian selection system for predators & sociopaths
@jzb #Maga is too broke to buy a #swasticar and people with common sense will not buy that shit...
Poor #Musk he may be feeling the pressure on his baby now, so much so that he needs to ask for his daddy big orange man to help. What a crybaby - he wants #empathy 
#Tesla is going down, he has a few more companies to go...
Remember guys, he is only a #billionaire because of the high value of his shares. If the shares go down, guess who goes down with them?
When you cultivate genuine compassionate insight, it is your nature to be helpful, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=XFZltVI26fYwqfPQ #mentalhealth #love #compassion #wisdom #empathy
Empathy Problem: too much #empathy might cause one to get too caught up in feelings, leading to unhealthy relationships, where a person's feelings control everything.
Misusing Empathy: People can use empathy to trick others, so when #feelings become more important than truth, the most sensitive people can end up controlling everything.
Scripture: The Bible says to "weep with those who weep,” but strong feelings can lead people in the wrong direction.
Thinking about the ancient concept of "Noblesse Oblige", that privileged people have some responsibility to make this life better, not just for themselves but others as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_oblige #ethics #empathy
A lot of people seem to be confused about the aim of replacing people with #ai in government & non-government #jobs
I believe the aim is NOT efficiency.
I believe the #billionaires would be ready to pay MORE for machines than what it takes to hire a human.
I believe it is about control.
I believe they are looking to replace AGENCY of private citizens, stopping the billionaires from being as greedy as they would like.
They want to eliminate #empathy and accordance to #law rather than wages.
![Three quotes / Text:
“The fundamental weakness of Western
civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,”
Musk said. “There it's they're exploiting a bug
in Western civilization, which is the empathy
response.”
- Elon Musk, Feb 28, 2025
“In my work with the defendants (at the
Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching
for the nature of evil and now think I have
come close to defining it. A lack of empathy.
It's the one characteristic that connects all the
defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with
their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence
of empathy.”
- Captain G. M. Gilbert, Army psychologist
“The death of human empathy is one of the
earliest and most telling signs of a culture
about to fall into barbarism. [...] This loss of
empathy laid the groundwork for some of
humanity's darkest moments. ”
- Hannah Arendt](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/140/363/506/733/651/original/efcee688b8839170.png "Three quotes / Text:
“The fundamental weakness of Western
civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,”
Musk said. “There it's they're exploiting a bug
in Western civilization, which is the empathy
response.”
- Elon Musk, Feb 28, 2025
“In my work with the defendants (at the
Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching
for the nature of evil and now think I have
come close to defining it. A lack of empathy.
It's the one characteristic that connects all the
defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with
their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence
of empathy.”
- Captain G. M. Gilbert, Army psychologist
“The death of human empathy is one of the
earliest and most telling signs of a culture
about to fall into barbarism. [...] This loss of
empathy laid the groundwork for some of
humanity's darkest moments. ”
- Hannah Arendt")
