#empathy
# politics
When anything done in good faith and boring competence always get a negative spin, why bother trying to help or inform anyone?
# longform
Today the world seems like it's suddenly unraveling. But experts have been warning us this day would come for many decades.
# science
Scientists are studying if babies are born with empathy and altruism and their research may help us create a blueprint for solving today's partisan tribalism and civil cold wars.
In the last 25 years, there's been a steep decline in our average empathy. Why? We're stuck in a self-created loop of misery, woe, anger, and conspiracies. And we must break the wheel.
Om Malik blames the dire state of the West on the people who spent years ringing the alarm bells instead of those who roundly ignored them.