Your Empathy is NOT for Sale
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Your Empathy is NOT for Sale
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In this time of end-stage capitalism, when everything is for sale -- our time and attention, our emotions, and our empathy -- it's important to know that we have a choice.
Empathy is not simply the ability to feel alongside people; it's our capacity to interact with anything -- people, animals, art, literature, music, concepts, ideas, and even inanimate objects. Our capacity to empathize is a part of our capacity to interact and make sense of our world.
If people ask you to drop your empathy (completely, or toward people and groups), they're asking you to be less functional. That's not workable in the short run or the long run.
Here are some ideas about how to retrieve your empathy from the control of others.
Karla mentions the group Leaving MAGA: https://leavingmaga.org/
Books mentioned in this episode:
Karla's books, The Art of Empathy and The Language of Emotions at Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/karla-mclaren-s-books
Books from this episode that help you take multiple perspectives (an excellent way to develop robust empathy) at Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-off-ramp-project
Missing the Solstice on Kindle and in paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F6TRWRBZ