A lack of empathy. Robert, Read your Wired empathy article.. would like
to invite you to a dialogue about it to hear the pro empathy side...
EdwinRutsch@gmail.com Center for Building a Culture of Empathy.
Robert
Wright uses evolutionary biology and game theory to explain why we
appreciate the Golden Rule ("Do unto others..."), why we sometimes
ignore it and why there’s hope that, in the near future, we might all
have the compassion to follow it.
A new study says empathy can increase political polarization
1:35 How empathy operates in today’s political environment
13:49 Is cognitive empathy a form of intelligence?
23:57 The Machiavellian uses of cognitive empathy
39:17 A counterproductive #Resistance view
of Trump supporters
44:49 Paul doesn’t understand how anyone can still support Trump
50:24 Why “dehumanization” isn’t the real problem
56:04 Paul’s core message: “Don’t listen to your heart”
Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart
Americans are as polarized as they've ever been. Could the problem be
that we're caring for each other too much?
Wired 2019-11-09
There are people who believe that the political polarization now
afflicting the United States might finally start to subside if Americans
of both parties could somehow become more empathetic. If you’re one of
these people, the American Political Science Review has sobering news
for you.
Last week APSR—one of the alpha journals in political science—published
a study which found that “empathic concern does not reduce partisan
animosity in the electorate and in some respects even exacerbates it.”
Wright Kaufman on empathy
"The
second of three discussions with Robert Wright on his lecture series at
Union Theological Seminary. This time we address questions regarding
empathy, mindfulness, and tribalism."
How The New York Times Is Making War With Iran More Likely
Robert Wright
"That power is called cognitive empathy, and it’s not what you might
think. It doesn’t involve feeling people’s pain or even caring about
their welfare. Emotional empathy is the kind of empathy that
accomplishes those things. Cognitive empathy — sometimes called
perspective taking — is a matter of seeing someone’s point of view:
understanding how they’re processing information, how the world looks to
them. Sounds unexceptional, I know — like the kind of thing you do every
day. But there are at least two reasons cognitive empathy deserves more
attention than it gets."
