There's something deeply ironic about this understanding he and people like this have of some kind of dichotomy between the brain and the heart. The only reason their fucking imbecilic brains even have the plasticity to try and "reason" their way out of feeling empathy is because they have been kept healthy by the altruistic efforts of their fellow humans, which is likely downstream of the very empathy they treat like a liability.
Narcissists pretty much require people with empathy to feed them.
Billionaire narcissists just get a wider supply, sometimes society wide, like if they get billions in subsidies backed by a cult of personality.
There's a type of ant parasite (a type of fluke I think?) that is classified as a "social parasite" because it takes advantage of ant eusociality. It infects a host ant and makes it smell and look more like a queen, and the other ants start to tend to it like they would a queen, meaning that they get overworked and sometimes even choose to care for the infected individual at the expense of their actual queen.
Edit: and the species' name? Capitalensis inheritorae
just kidding
Meanwhile
high off his mind on Phyrolidon and having a mental breakdown because of 
deciding to mirror everyone else's painI messed up my search history so you don't have to: There is no such study. The "source" is a book by Gad Saad, a Canadian marketing professor, called "The Parasitic Mind," which has a quote from Jordan Peterson on the cover. I'm assuming that and the absence of any reviews in the scholarly lit give you an indication of how seriously it should be taken.
Canadian marketing professor
I'm hard pressed to assemble a more cursed string of words.
I remember Gad Saad was really big in anti-SJW circles about 10 years ago.
i guess the real "Parasitic Mind" was the friends we made along the way
"I found a study" is the battle cry for liberals that already want to do something but also want to feel smart for it, everywhere. Remember when wine was supposed to be an elixir of health?
REDDIT MOMENT!
“Ummm ackually me acting like a misbehaving 8 year old boy is my right as the biggiest-brain in the world. Ethics are for the STEW-PID!”
Brainy Smurf ahh mf.
Careful, if you care too much about others and find yourself full of empathy, you may be on the path to ebil soviet China 1984 gommunism
Remember those decades of fiction fads where "the balance" and enlightened neutrality were fetishized? I sure do.
Remember them? I don't know that they ever went away.
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.
Facts over feelings guys when they realize it's a fact that people have feelings
uncontrolled empathy
my god that is so goddamn stupid lmao
"I feel too strongly for others, maybe I should stop caring"
some time later
"AHHH I FEEL SO ALONE WHY DOES NOBODY LIKE ME PEOPLE SAY IM MEAN AHHHHH"
"We must strike a balance with cruelty and malice, just like my Grey Jedi Original Character Do Not Steal!"
Noooo you mustn't put yourself in the mind of this person I am about to throw in the meat grinder. You must show restraint.
Still waiting for evidence that empathy is the opposite of rational thought.
It's not thought at all. It's the experience of vicarious pain. It might even be the basis for our social tendencies. Best example I know of are neurological studies that suggest that witnessing footage of someone getting stabbed forces you to experience at least a tiny, compartmentalized version of the stabbing, even feeling it in the same spot. It's probably one of the most fundamental parts of the human experience but I personally don't understand it as something I do rationally, but in a good way, if that makes sense?
It isn't and never has been. Making decisions under pretense of no emotions is itself an emotional decision. There's no escape and attempting to be emotionless is just selective blinders and contempt.
Reminds me of a study I once read where they used drugs to suppress emotions in rats.
The rats all basically lost all desire to do anything, including eating and basic hygiene.
Seconded, as someone who’s struggling with depression that’s what it feels like. Not just “the big sad” but more like “the big nothing”.
I would not wish “no emotions” on anyone, not even my worst enemy.
Oh I would wish that on Elon, it seems he would like that anyway :))))
Contempt for emotion and a desire to LARP as a computer are both emotional impulses, as I constantly remind such Reddit-brains.
You mortals and your "feelings". When will you learn!Lots of fancy words to dress up me not feeling bad about being a piece of shit to people.
He's the real life Gul Dukat: he wants to be a piece of shit bloodsoaked tyrant and be praised for it.
neoliberalism says that if you care too much about each other, they might just have to kill you about it. can't get in the way of profits!
Political beliefs that hold empathy in contempt never lead to harmful ideologies
Y'know he may be onto something...our (humanity in general, Hexbear not so much) willingness to humanize billionaire monsters like Elon Musk and his ilk is going to doom the planet. Glad we have science to back us up now
"Mr. Musk is helping me find my ticket to Mars."
ARE YOU OKAY?
