It really frustrates me too since imo empathy isn’t the end-all be-all of virtue. Hyperactive empathy can create a constantly open wound in a world full of systemic cruelty, and it can be visceral enough to be the grounds for manipulating people. But for these ghouls to extrapolate from that the lesson of “we’d be FREE if I didn’t get weighed down by these PARASITES with their NEEDS and TRAUMAS” is so god damn evil that I usually keep my trap shut wrt empathy in most circles.
“People care too much about things” has long been the message of South Park, Rick and Morty, and other favorite sources of ideals and aspirations for 15 year old edgy children and 50 year old edgy manchildren.
“People care too much about things” has long been the message of South Park
South Park routinely trips over itself as it sprints between “only an insufferable liberal would care about things” and “why are people so unfathomably cruel to each other?” Empathy isn’t unknown to the writers. It just slips in and out of their memory whenever a punchline necessitates it.
ideals and aspirations for 15 year old edgy children and 50 year old edgy manchildren
The dirty truth of the human condition is how easy it can be for people to stop maturing (or outright regress) far earlier than we would like to acknowledge. And it certainly doesn’t help when Americans are the most propagandized people on earth.
Yes clearly what the world has too much of is empathy
It really frustrates me too since imo empathy isn’t the end-all be-all of virtue. Hyperactive empathy can create a constantly open wound in a world full of systemic cruelty, and it can be visceral enough to be the grounds for manipulating people. But for these ghouls to extrapolate from that the lesson of “we’d be FREE if I didn’t get weighed down by these PARASITES with their NEEDS and TRAUMAS” is so god damn evil that I usually keep my trap shut wrt empathy in most circles.
“People care too much about things” has long been the message of South Park, Rick and Morty, and other favorite sources of ideals and aspirations for 15 year old edgy children and 50 year old edgy manchildren.
South Park routinely trips over itself as it sprints between “only an insufferable liberal would care about things” and “why are people so unfathomably cruel to each other?” Empathy isn’t unknown to the writers. It just slips in and out of their memory whenever a punchline necessitates it.
The dirty truth of the human condition is how easy it can be for people to stop maturing (or outright regress) far earlier than we would like to acknowledge. And it certainly doesn’t help when Americans are the most propagandized people on earth.