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The people leading this society right now sincerely believe that empathy is the fundamental weakness of our civilization, and introspection is something to be avoided as much as possible. I believe our state of affairs stems from those two propositions.

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I believe in local societies. Very few of us are in a position to affect things at a global scale.

If you want to change your world, demonstrate empathy in your very small, very local society. I'll try to do better in my small world, too. Maybe some day your little society will extend out to touch my little society. Let's hope that together they would form a bigger bubble where empathy is a strength.

And much of our society believes those two things. You see it every day watching people interact in public with a sense of extreme entitlement. Toxic individualism.

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