Marc Andreessen

And Matt Kramer had a good quote, which is, if the empathy you have doesn't make you more forgiving, more accepting of other people's spiritual sovereignty, or more understanding of people who don't want to think or live the same way you do, you don't have empathy, you have empathy TM.

Why have you been thinking about this concept?

Yeah, so there's this really brilliant guy, Gad Saad.

I don't exactly know how to pronounce that, Gad Saad.

And, you know, very brilliant guy.

And there's obviously lots of YouTube videos and books and so forth.

And really brilliant guy.

So he's got this new book coming out on so-called, what do you call it, suicidal empathy.

And, you know, there's a sort of political loading to it, which, you know, we don't need to spend a lot of time on.

But, you know, it's sort of this idea that there are kind of these social justice, you know, kind of social reform movements.

you know, kind of through time that have this characteristic of, you know, they claim to be causing positive change, you know, in some direction.

And then it turns out they have, you know, sort of severe, you know, sort of negative consequences.

The great Thomas Sowell, you know, basically spent 50 years writing books about this.

And by the way, nobody listened.

And then in the last decade, we've been through, you know, wave after wave of this kind of social activism that kind of, you know, results in... I mean, it's all this stuff, right?

It's just, you know...

All these like, you know, crime policy reform, defund the police things, and then it causes these massive crime waves.

And then, of course, low income and minority people get hit hardest by that.

And, you know, all these other crazy things.

And so he says, you know, he says the characteristic of kind of that kind of social reform movement is characterized by what he calls suicidal empathy.