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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Show threadChristo. London, EnglandMar 8, 2025
@nazgul
Is Musk a sociopath or a psychopath?
Show threadNikitaTarsov

@Christo_459 @nazgul I guess neither is the case, as he only perfectly depicts what we typically imagen to be these terms.
But Musk very much shows empathy - just reacts to it in the worst, most damaged way.
He's a narcissist with low intellectual capability to handle whatever trama made him that - and for sure also had the worst possible enviroment to find coping mechanisms.

In terms of society, he surely isen't much but a symptom of some pockets of society being horribly evil and destructive.

Mar 9, 2025 at 3:36pmWeb