While it is true that the cultures we are born into usually are selectively-sociopathic, not all remain with that process/engineered-evolution.
& I’ve experienced bodhichitta, itself: so any claim that “everyone suspends their empathy” cannot apply to anyone who is permanently in bodhichitta: it’s mutually-exclusive with suspending-empathy.
More-objective empathy makes one more & more incompatible with the cultures of this world, though: that is absolutely true.
One is “insane” according to the comparatively-sociopathic cultures that rule.
Exactly as Confucian Marxist Leninist culture in China deems spirituality insanity, & holds that it ought be subjected to psychiatric-treatment.
& … to me, sociopathy is a spectrum, not a binary off/on toggle: most of the cultures of this world are somewhat sociopathic.
( I’m using “sociopathic” for induced-non-empathy, vs psychopathic for intrinsically-incapable-of-empathy )
Moneyarchy & concentration-of-wealth-archy absolutely do value DarkTriad-nature for dominance & supremacism.
The reason they’re successful is because narcissism is normal in humankind, & therefore the “soil is rich” for that development, among our species…
which was actually my reason for opening this discussion to add:
While it is true that the cultures we are born into usually are selectively-sociopathic, not all remain with that process/engineered-evolution.
& I’ve experienced bodhichitta, itself: so any claim that “everyone suspends their empathy” cannot apply to anyone who is permanently in bodhichitta: it’s mutually-exclusive with suspending-empathy.
More-objective empathy makes one more & more incompatible with the cultures of this world, though: that is absolutely true.
One is “insane” according to the comparatively-sociopathic cultures that rule.
Exactly as Confucian Marxist Leninist culture in China deems spirituality insanity, & holds that it ought be subjected to psychiatric-treatment.
& … to me, sociopathy is a spectrum, not a binary off/on toggle: most of the cultures of this world are somewhat sociopathic.
( I’m using “sociopathic” for induced-non-empathy, vs psychopathic for intrinsically-incapable-of-empathy )
Moneyarchy & concentration-of-wealth-archy absolutely do value DarkTriad-nature for dominance & supremacism.
The reason they’re successful is because narcissism is normal in humankind, & therefore the “soil is rich” for that development, among our species…
which was actually my reason for opening this discussion to add:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/people-of-the-lie-m-scott-peck/1100181526?ean=9780684848594
identifies that the root of evil seems to be narcissism.
This guy, above, identifies it as non-empathy.
They seem to be 2 sides of the same coin, though:
if one has honest empathy for others, then that undermines narcissism.
If one hasn’t empathy, then narcissism hasn’t got anything competing against it, in one’s sentience.
& that, itself, seems to be a bad problem.
I believe that the whole “it’s narcissism 1st” vs “it’s non-empathy 1st” is idiotic: chicken vs chicken-egg, argument…
They’re co-evolving, aren’t they?
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