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Be kind to your elders (lemmy.world)

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[–] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Empathy is easily used for propaganda as well. All those "immigrants are going to r your wife" and "radical elites transing your children" are the appeals to empathy that work very well (there are examples from the left too lets be honest, they're just less unhinged)

IMO you need empathy, rationality and introspection: empathy to feel for your fellow human, rationality to not fall for the grift, introspection to realize in what ways you were an idiot and self-correct.

The wave of scepticism that will inevitably come in 2030s will weed out the grifters, but I doubt it'll last. Time is a flat circle afterall.

[–] pseudonaut@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I see your point but I don’t think you’re describing empathy as much as fear in your examples.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago

There are some who think time is shaped like a Jeremy Bearamy...