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The End of Empathy

Invisibilia

CHAPTER

Empathy Is Not an Infinite Resource

The point of empathy is that it's bringing us together. And in that instance, i think it like further pushes us apart. Lena told a story of how she was listening to an m perre interview with a white nationalist named jason kesler who was the organizer of the charlottesville rally. As lena was listening, she started to enter into kessler's thoughts understand his position. When she caught herself doing it, she just slumped to the kitchen floor. She lost a little bit of her conviction. What's wrong with losing your conviction?

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