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Selective Empathy

  A selective empathetic is a more sinister evil than the outright unempathetic. The unempathetic is quite small in numbers, and are under more scrutiny. The selective empathetic is one of reflective desire, picking and choosing those to be glad for and wishing to prosper based off of desired personal gain, gain that involves putting others down in the process. This level of empathy is pure submission to outside preachers, outside systems, media, literature, art, and economics, and represents a dark and fallible inner sense. Letting things simply happen, apathetic to their greater truth, nihilistic in meaning, and a walking product of guiding forces around them. A pure empathetic is empathetic to all in all situations, noticing the humanity in all. It is sad to notice the selective empathetic being a prevalent and lauded endeavor, when the qualities of such selective empathetic are thought of also as manipulation. A great contradiction in social morality and personal character judgeme

All Encompassing Life Views

             Day after day I sit and wonder why it is that we have complete in depth, accurate analyses of our work lives, and yet we continue to go home with cognitive dissonance about our own lives. We believe in false realities, unable to understand modern philosophy at any level due to our unconscious bias. The home life is based around the subjective person, the work-life is based around the world around them.  It's no wonder we as a society act this way either. Under the pretenses we give everyone, we expect a, sort of, "no questions asked," way of living. The systems we've built around our personal lives is highly impractical in comparison to the ones we've built around our work environments. It makes sense evolutionarily why this is the case, but I believe we as a society can go beyond it.  Under the layout of thinking within a scientific basis, we can subdue the urges of wanting our feelings to be the absolute. If we align the feelings within ourselves