But it’s also visible in the besieged attitude of white nationalists as well as other ugly corners of the Dark Enlightenment like “Men’s Rights Activists” who decry the “irrationality” of women, or chan culture’s vocal and explicit hatred of empathy. There is, throughout this corner of the world, a deficiency of empathy that is not merely lack or failure, but an active, conscious disdain. Moldbug, Yudkowsky, and Land don’t just “do poorly” with empathy—they represent the most visible and explicit edge of a Cathedral-scaled system of values that casts the desire to listen and try to understand
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