We evolved as a result of empathy and compassion. It’s our secret weapon. And it’s the one skill lacked by con-artist, cult-leader autocrats. When we turn away from each other, those skills atrophy and we literally devolve. That’s what doomsday thinking encourages us to do: mistrust and blame, isolate from, seek dominion over, disregard the needs of, and even wish violence upon one another.
