empathy

The role of empathy in human thought. How did we evolve separate value systems?

Submitted by don mikulecky on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 5:42pm

The human mind is not as flexible as we might like to think. The most obvious place to see this is in the political sphere. Knee jerk responses to frames are the norm, not the exception. The most common place to see this is in the mass media. Political propagandists have known this for centuries.

Class and the White Trash Revolution (WTR)

Submitted by Sunspots on Tue, 03/07/2017 - 1:09pm

Middle- and upper-class America are desperately fighting the WTR, just as they have historically always fought off White Trash demands for justice and fairness. And it is true that there is no guarantee at this date that the WTR will not descend into fascism. Certainly, many of the same xenophobic and fascist elements are similar to the 1930s.