Elon Musk, a massive donor to President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign and a key player early in the second Trump administration, told Joe Rogan last year, as he was DOGE-ing the federal government, “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” More cryptically, he added, “There’s so much empathy that you actually suicide yourself.”
Musk seemed to be saying that empathy can go so far that our own good becomes obscured to the point that we favor the good of someone else. Empathy, at any rate, is not only weakness but dangerous.
Since then, empathy has become a dirty word in MAGA circles.
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