Our culture has conditioned us to avoid feelings and emotions.
Susan David (in video)
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Empathy, Group Identity, and the Mechanisms of Exclusion
Group Identity
1.4 Dissociation of Empathy: the Mechanisms of Exclusion
The genocides of the twentieth century, by which I mean the mass murders of the Armenians, Jews, Tutsi, Bosnians and others, despite all differences regarding their causes, conditions and extent, had one fundamental common feature: the genocide was preceded by an exclusion of an ethnic or religious group within the respective society. This exclusion was implemented, on the one hand, through a definition and radical separation of a “they-group” from the “we-group”; on the other hand, through an objectification and degradation by which the members of the excluded group were refused their recognition as persons and even denied their humanness. These excluding, depersonalizing and dehumanizing ideologies and policies were also able to neutralize or suspend basic empathetic feelings in the perpetrators toward their fellow humans.
In a widely respected study entitled “Ordinary men: reserve police battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland”, Browning (2001) has analyzed a piece of history of the Nazi genocide, namely the mass execution of Polish Jews by the Hamburg police battalion 101. It consisted of almost 500 middle-aged reservists, many ordinary family men, no fanatic Nazis, who in 1942/43 killed 38,000 Jews, men, women and children within about 12 months, by shootings which often lasted for days. The policemen shot their victims at close range and often continued to do so for hours before they were replaced. A peculiar feature was that at the beginning of the executions the policemen were explicitly given the choice whether to take part in the killings or not. Scarcely a dozen of them refrained and subsequently were not punished in any way. As Browning writes: The fundamental problem is to explain why ordinary men—shaped by a culture that had its own peculiarities but was nonetheless within the mainstream of western Christian, and Enlightenment traditions— under specific circumstances willingly carried out the most extreme genocide in human history (Browning 2001, p. 222).
..::”Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of people who are oppressing them.
We Think We Listen, but that might be a thought!
https://empathymatters.org/now/active-listening-carl-rogers/
Understanding this could greatly reduce human suffering.
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the seed of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is already dead. ~Albert Einstein”Refusing humility traps you in delusion.♡ Love Albert Einstein … Only a comic book bible would suggest a cultish behavior to genoc~~ everyone else, but some special chosen ones? OMG
Imagine living on a planet where the rich get richer by indoctrinating the people to follow ancient dogma, repeating an ancient doctrine of genocide projected onto innocent children, again and again, the rich get richer, and the children receive brutal indoctrination instead of Living Their Sacred Free & Joyful Life.
Secret History: How Evil Triumphs:
