Forced empathy vs natural kindness

"kindness knows no shame" - Stevie Wonder

I think apathy is the natural response to a lot of things happening in the world. There is so much going on, it's impossible to care about it all. I've definitely become more apathetic the last few years, and instead of trying to look out for a large group of friends/associates I've narrowed it down to close family.

I'm so glad I was young from the 70's to the 90's. I don't like the way things are headed .......

RIGHT ON BROTHER

Your take on life and your treatment of others, as I've learned about you through your video posts not just this one, makes you one of the most lovable people alive. Your willingness to steer towards compassion and decency is the stuff that makes the human experience worth living. Thank you for this message about kindness.

I think of empathy like a sense. Like sight or hearing. Being sighted or hearing makes life easier than being blind or deaf, but you're not a bad person for having poor vision, and you can definitely use highly acute senses for evil, see: dark empath. All of these new protocols and rules and all the new hierarchies of who is more oppressed than others don't seem to have much to do with empathy to me. It feels more like an attempt to use groups of people as pawns to exert social control. I don't think it's possible to be empathetic towards concepts, it's only possible to be empathetic towards individuals you've met.

I'm not sure what your concept of the "western world" is, but I can say with certainty that capitalism isn't going anywhere, not in 10 years, nor 100 years from now. I say that as someone who has a lot of issues with capitalism as a concept (particularly how it interacts with and perverts the idea of art). Private ownership of capital (businesses, land, property etc) is such an enticing concept that even nations that say they are based in communism or socialism adopt it, whether intentionally or not. People often think of China as one of the penultimate communist nations, but in reality, today, it is far closer to a capitalist economy than it is to a socialist one. Personally I'm far more afraid of the advancement of capitalism to its extreme extents, unregulated and unmitigated, when we are discussion corporations so huge that they have wealth that exceeds that of many countries, that have private armies that similarly rival that of many nations. Concepts like technocracy (techno-feudalism) or corporate libertarianism are dystopic, but scarily live within the realm of reason when we are talking about the coming decades (the combination of extreme wealth disparity and the ongoing effects of climate change for example). We already have people today suggesting that things like anti-trust laws, labor laws (including child labor laws), and consumer protection laws are getting in the way of "progress", or as "socialist" or "marxist" concepts that hold us all back. Like we didn't already go through this with the "futurist" movement that lead into notions about modernity. The perceived mastery of people, society and technology. Which, in the abstract sounds interesting, but historically gave us fascism, race science, industrialized genocide, etc. And these are facts that are kind of hard to ignore when the same people pushing toward that today are also playing around with n@z* memes (such as Elon Musk). This all might be my own form of conspiratorial paranoia to some extent, but at the same time there are most certainly people/groups banking on the collapse of democracy, banking on the effects of climate change while out of the other side of their mouth, denying that it is even occurring. And again, we actually live in a world where some companies quite literally have their own private armies and more more wealth than numerous nations so it's hard not to be a little paranoid about the implications of that. Meanwhile we're quibbling over whether it's okay that trans people exist... Which interestingly, some of the first books that the n@z*s burned were related to gender studies, so, idk, maybe something to keep in mind.

I will keep yelling at clouds.

Happened upon your videos after watching Mandalore’s Anonymous Agony video and JCS. What do you mean when you mention things people are demanding you memorize?

love it!

Keep on - " Just sayin'..." Your on the true and correct path as the way of having utmost humanity for its own sake is as valid as TRUTH. The rest of everything else will eventually course correct as Logic, Reason, and absolutes of Truth become the last arbiter. Everyday is Judgment Day..as a mantra..to consider. Mindfulness and Conscious Awareness become elevated. (for those who have both)

I feel like you wanted to make a point here but then you just meandered around the point instead of making it. I'm legitimately unsure what you wanted to convey in this video :/

Great message Kiz

They might be reasonable people who are yelling at UFOs behind the clouds.

How about being cruel to be kind, Kizzume? What should we do when "being kind" comes into conflict with Truth?!

Yessss

There's always the other path, where you do what I and many others do and just reject all this modern idiocy. They try to bully you into accepting their worldviews by adopting their vocabulary and ideology, because that's really what you're doing when you accept those things. You don't have to comply. I know we differ on this, but personally I find their labeling of me as being unkind or unempathetic or an asshole or whatever else to be pretty fulfilling, because if it's wrong to oppose bullshit, then I don't want to be right. At least, not by their standards.

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People who have a lot of empathy are not emotionally stable and tend to be neurotic. All normal people feel empathy for their family members, but that's about how far it extends. Sympathy is the healthy equivalent of empathy when it comes to feelings for the rest of humanity. It is the ability to recognize and respect someone else's feelings without feeling them yourself.

Kind Kizzume