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Monday, December 26, 2016

Empathy

  Fascinating read

Psychology Today: The Decline of Empathy and the Appeal of Right-Wing Politics - What child psychology can teach us about the current GOP. by Michael Bader
On nearly all measures of social life, Americans tend to have fewer and lower quality interactions with one another than their parents or grandparents did. Isolation has grown along with inequality. They go together. Societies with more economic fairness and equality are ones that encourage and privilege cooperation and mutuality. Societies like ours that are so exceptionally unequal encourage and privilege aggression, paranoia, and competitiveness, traits associated with the so-called “rugged individualist.” While sometimes adaptive, such an ideal also makes a virtue out of disconnection and trauma.

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