What Happened to Empathy?
While traveling by car on any U.S. interstate, you might encounter a bumper sticker that reads, “Nobody cares about your feelings.” The phrasing was a misinterpretation of a quote by Ben Shapiro who declared “Facts don’t care about your feelings.” Elon Musk took it further, declaring empathy to be the fundamental weakness of Western civilization. What is empathy, and why has it come under attack? JB and Jim tackle the modern assault on human connection in America, pulling insights from Plutarch, Jeremy Bentham, Andrew Carnegie, Howard Hughes, and many others.
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