Kee HinckleyMar 8, 2025

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”
-Elon Musk, Feb 28, 2025

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
-Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/elon-musk-rogan-interview-empathy-doge/index.html

Elon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy

Americans are still in the dark about the scope and scale of what Elon Musk is doing with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, which is working to drastically shrink the size of government by aiming to cut $1 trillion or more in government spending.

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Look up recent Marc Andreessen podcasts interviews. Hear him talk about "slave morality" we get from Christianity. Where to suffer is virtuous, being weak is good, inflicting suffering is bad.

Contrasts that with "master morality", where might is right, the winners are virtuous. The losers deserve all the bad things, suffering shame etc that hits them. Like in the pre-Christian pagan Roman empire. That's where the Roman (not nazi) salutes come in.

Think that's the (master-ha!) idea.

Mar 8, 2025 at 8:13pmWeb