"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”
Probably a lot of us are tired of Musks ramblings but I just thought this is clearly showing why he is so dangerous.
I think Musk may be more of a psychopath than Donald Trump, who is more of a narcissist but hopefully not a full blown maniac.
This has been a repeatedly raised point from the Evangelical right over the last few years. Then it moved into the right-wing bubble as a whole, and now Leon is regurgitating it.
For those who may have been on the fence about this discussion, No, Empathy is not weakness, and it’s not a “bug”. Can it be exploited like any other emotional response? Certainly, but that doesn’t make it the boogeyman that it’s being painted as.
Empathy is the enemy if you buy fully into the American way of working hard and ignoring weather you are happy or not… Then its better to push those feelings down and ignore them, pretend they dont exist.
I dont think any of the working culture is the point of our lives.