An SG reader is struggling with the idea that only a small percentage of the population are emotionally exosynaesthetic:
I’m struggling with the idea that only a small portion of the population has that capacity.
Why? Have you talked to any actual humans lately? It’s much more likely that you simply don’t understand what empathy actually is.
Note that these five examples below are not definitions that cover the entire meaning of the terms and set limits on their applications, they are just explanatory examples meant to help you understand the differences between the concepts.
Empathy: I know how you feel in your situation. Chrysopathy: I know how I would feel in your situation. Sympathy: I feel bad about your situation. Apathy: I have no feelings about your situation. Antipathy: I feel pleased about your situation. Now think about how few people even bother to know what someone else’s situation actually is, much less have basic sympathy for it. Chrysopathy is the best that most people can do; because women are solipsistic they have absolutely no empathetic ability whatsoever and it is a very good thing that they do not.
Interparty fighting is necessary to bring people to the primaries, which are necessary to drum up support for people coming out to the polls in the presidential election.
David was necessary to reel the younger left back into the party, but alienated senior members of the party. The leftwing boomers are enamored by AOC, or at least don't want to go against her for the same reason they didn't go against obama: they don't want to appear racist.
At the same time AOC is to run against the governor of california or another, in the primaries and/or the presidential selection in 2028.
AOC has to be kept for this manufactured interparty conflict to drag people to the polls and keep the latin vote engaged. Meanwhile she needs allies. A party chair like David, who is isolated, could and would be that opportunity for her, while throwing David a lifeline.
I'd put a 1-in-5 odds on them having already talked. I suspect the ouster of Hogg will soon be reversed or denied outright.
