Fighting Anti-Empathy (or doing it all wrong) September 17, 2008 11:03 AM
Hello all, this writing below will be the basis of the group as it morphs to an action community. It is in a Wiki right now, and developement of it has been delayed by the "last gasp" struggles of the unempathic (meaning "not able to feel the feelings of others, and hence cruel) former members. Also I have been working in financial techology as a project leader and tech writer, though I am thoughly enjoying the pain felt by wall street capital -- the enemies of empathy.
I have taken the struggle to the streets, and the types of conversations you see here between me and the anti-empathic -- I guess I got the nerves -- are becoming real-life. At the core of the anti-neural resistance to neural affectionate reality is the famous athiets Dawkins, who writes that hatred coded at the genetic level for all life. Well maybe for viruses, but not for humans. The neurological empathic arguement is that anti-emapthy is either a genetic coding error, or neural mapping by the anti-empathic on the empathically normal via abuse and trauma.
In real-life the conversation, as it happened yesterday, went a bit further. My debate opponent, who views life as mechanical and swears by Dawkins (and told me he is Jewish) got caught in the web of reality, and and when the hatred BS faltered he resorted to lies and insults, as I have experienced here: he called me a racist after my telling him that I have been a Rastafarian since the early 80s. Calling someone a racist is invariably a set-up -- the man planned to fight, to exercise what he sees as the natural mechanism of dominance. I told him instantly that we were done with our conversation (and that he lost) but then lied and denied that he called me a racist. Being empathically normal, is moral bankruptcy angered me, and as it turns out sensed my confidence and looked at my forearms. He turned and ran into the Paneras.
This converstation started out really friendly, but I noticed that he kept glancing at my girlfriend... when he told me that the wealthy are parasites, and I told him why I belived that, we got onto the topic of neural evolution, where he told me that he had learnied that Darwin was the originator of the concept that the most violent and malevolent are the most "superior" genetically. Darwin didn't say that, Hitler did -- and as he pointed out he is Jewish. This speaks volumes about the problems we having in the world. Pure like and hence contradiction by those with defective empathic neurons are at the core of all the suffering caused, and they may be disguised as any kind of human, even liberal leftists, as this "man" is.
It also provides us w/ a road map, even one for the Middle East -- exposing control by the few defective enough to believe that lies, insults, and ultimately killing are the basis of humanity.
There of course there is the ultimate illogic -- that struggling for empathy is un-empathic, and that giving control to the empathically deprived is emapthy. No, stopping hate at its core is the answer -- stopping this particular sickness.