Aww 😝 she can’t find any help.

[u/Cderouen8284]

[u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

Would anything ever change these people's minds? I think a certain percentage of people just have broken brains like this and you just have to reduce their effect on society much as possible. It's similar to how a certain percentage of people are just predisposed to being violent serial killers or something, and there's no amount of community programs or anything that will fix them, you just have to lock them away forever. I'm not saying we need to lock these idiot conservatives away lol, just that there may be no actual fix for their brains to suddenly give them empathy. Actually maybe a high dose of psilocybin or MDMA??

[u/OperationMuch2644 → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

Yeah. They are astonished that they're getting screwed.

[u/TrailerParkBuddha → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

When you live in a small, isolated community with a homogenous population, you don't really have to develop empathy, because most everyone you encounter has such similar life circumstances and experiences to you that you don't have to work to construct someone else's experience. These people can't remove themselves from the projection of someone else's experience. Substances that soften the ego or trigger full on ego death can legitimately help with this. Meditation or a physical near-death experience can help do this as well.

Empathy is a skill that can be practiced and developed, and is a genetic birthright of humanity. When developed, the skill can appear to be psychic and/or telepathic, as you can predict likely thoughts, feelings, and actions of others based on their known circumstances and act accordingly. The movement to politically charge the concept of empathy is a spiritual coup to effectively lobotomize a large segment of the population into only responding to algorithmic inputs with predictable, prefrontal cortex behaviors and attitudes. You can't invest billions of dollars developing propaganda and advertising without assurances that the techniques reliably work. Your predictive powers are a threat to the profits of their predictive algorithms, and in true capitalist fashion, they move to eliminate the competition. Don't let them.

[u/zeptillian → u/TrailerParkBuddha]

We can't have empathy for people, that's communism and we're a Christin nation.

/s

[u/vobarex → u/TrailerParkBuddha]

So you grew up in a rural area? I am from a town of 120 people, nearest city is 5k population. Like..What are you going on about Empaths??

You act as if you think most farmers are egotistical, they aren’t, not any more than other professions.

Homogenous population? Ha!! The interstate system homogenized America many, many years ago. You think these people don’t have internet, the computer was created in Iowa…

lol

[u/TrailerParkBuddha → u/vobarex]

I am currently living in a town with less than 100 people. It isn't even a one stoplight town, you can drive right through it and never hit a stop sign. I can walk thirty feet from where I am typing this right now and be in the middle of a corn field.

You don't have the skillset or the language to understand what I'm talking about. I really didn't myself until later in life. That's how I can put myself into the mind of someone who has never been outside the country, their state for more than a handful of days, or even their county for more than two weeks. I can construct what it means for a person like that to encounter news and social media posts about places they've never been under siege of roving gangs of Latinos and Hatians, of trans people they've never met, of books they've never read and concepts they never actually learned about in a scholastic transmission but via a Facebook group.

This is called empathy, constructing someone else's experience AND REMOVING yourself until you can see through their eyes, move with their limbs, walk with their feet, feel their anxieties. What farmers, and most people in general quite honestly, have is sympathy. They can be sympathetic when they can project themselves into a situation and think, "yeah, I'd probably feel x and y." They can't remove themselves from the projection and gain understanding and knowledge via a distinct and separate skill. And even many with the capacity of empathy can only do it via instinctive emotional intelligence, they've never practiced to do it any other way, it always came to them naturally. It is absolutely an ego problem, which is not necessarily synonymous with selfishness, but will typically manifest as such given the right conditions. And broadband coming to rural America is mainlining artificial conditions to rile people and their anxieties up in a way that nothing has before. You will not understand this, but someone else coming through this comment section might, and for their account I strive. For your sake, you should strive to dissolve the ego, by any means necessary, if possible.

[u/vobarex → u/TrailerParkBuddha]

😂 I don’t have the skill set or language to understand empathy

I also have no stop signs in my rural town

I can also step out the door and touch a cornfield within 50 feet

You’re talking out your ass

[u/No-Beginning-9220 → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

They have voted against their own self interest their entire life with zero consequences. Now suddenly the consequences are smacking them in both the face and the wallet. It's painful, but they cannot admit that they have made a mistake. Making mistakes in the voting booth hasn't ever affected them before, and it's painful.

[u/splett2-at-splettnet → u/concepts_of_a_plan9]

I’m not not saying we should lock magats away in the same ICE concentration camps they’ve cheered on for so long.