Marc Andreessen
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first heard Jun 2023
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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.
And the idea being basically it's sort of driven by a pathological, you know, take it backwards, a pathological form of empathy on the one hand, which is, you know, it's sort of a deep desire to be nice and empathetic, you know, but coupled with like basically, you know, a sort of self-destructiveness, you know, either a willingness to really cause damage to the people you claim to be speaking for or by the way to cause damage to yourself.
Kind of in that process.
And it's the kind of thing where, you know, if you've lived through, you know, like everybody in San Francisco has lived through this for the last decade and seen the consequences of these movements.
You know, the San Francisco version of this is like the, quote, harm reduction movement, you know, that ended up basically handing out, you know, free drug, you know, paraphernalia and, you know, in some cases actually just free drugs to, you know, people who were just literally dying in the street from drug addiction.
So you just look at it and you're like, well, yeah, they claim to be activists, they claim to be reformers, they claim to care about these people, and yet they're killing them and then killing the city and causing innocent people to get harmed.
It's like, okay, they seem so actively like they're doing it out of some sense of compassion that this must be suicidal empathy.
The problem with it is, and I think the problem is the theory is sort of easily falsifiable or maybe lets the reformers off the hook, which is,
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