The End of Weaponized Empathy

step one: how does this image make you feel?

remember your answer. there will be a test.

[picture of woman crying because she saw a MAGA hat in the airport]

narrator: action was not coming.

this movie seems to be on auto repeat all over social media right now. it’s astonishing the breakdowns and breakage that seem to have been triggered by two weeks of “the donald.”

leaving aside the rightness or wrongness of all this opinion and histrionic hurdy-burly, i find the overall pathology fascinating.

i also think it likely means something very different than most are inclined to assume.