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As social beings, most of us are inherently inclined to provide emotional support to our loved ones in distress. Being accurately empathetic allows us to objectively provide comfort to others, be there for them emotionally without being overwhelmed and without losing our sense of self. While being the right amount of empathetic can be fulfilling to both the provider and the recipient, can too much empathy be a bad thing?
Till a few years ago, what was discussed in classrooms was fairly based on real-life principles of Democracy: freedom to choose the candidate who roots for the nation’s wellbeing; based on the values endorsed by the individual voter. Recently, it has been more about group loyalty and identity politics, how did we end up here.
In his book, A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell writes, “Social cohesion is a necessity, and mankind has never yet succeeded in enforcing cohesion by merely rational arguments.” We witness this unfold before our eyes with the world in the perilous grips of a virus, in need of its people to unite to curb the spread of the virus and put an end to this unforgiving and, what seems like an endless pandemic.
