King Bazinga signal boosts a study about how "balance must be restored" regarding empathy. He knows all about empathy; ask the kids that disowned him!
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?
"Uncontrolled empathy" okay calm down satan.
Lots of fancy words to dress up me not feeling bad about being a piece of shit to people.
I 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.
i guess the real "Parasitic Mind" was the friends we made along the way
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.
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
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.
"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"
Yes clearly what the world has too much of is empathy
"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.
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.
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.
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!
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
Literally Nazi shit
This dumbass really is a 13 years old terminally online edgelord in a 50+years old body.
I give it a year until he starts making “I want to beat up Barney” jokes.
Tom Hanks' "Big" if the kid had been an apartheid-emerald nepo-baby
harmful to whom?
What an insufferable twat.
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.
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 pain
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 them? I don't know that they ever went away.