2026-08-24 21:00 UTC
Or Gad Saad's Suicidal Empathy, an Elon Musk favorite. The very concept and premise is nonsensical, because empathy cuts against suicide: the thing that a suicidal person craves the most is understanding, the feeling of not being alone and utterly lacking in emotional support from fellow beings.
Empathy prevents suicide, but Saad and Musk are both extremely hateful and vindictive bigots.
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@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol 2026-08-24 21:03
Because the concept makes no sense, the book Suicidal Empathy, whoever really wrote it (I very much doubt that Gad Saad had much to do with it, besides hashing out a general outline with a ghostwriter or an #LLM) cannot possibly make sense. But it doesn't need to. The title is the memetic thing, the all-in-one diagnosis of the leftists' sicknesses as Musk and Saad imagine them. (cont'd)