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#of people who are not prone to empathy his complete and total void of sympathy is much more unique in terms of humanity at large. it’s just
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do i post my long explanation of empathy vs sympathy re: roman tonight or is that just excessive
#like warning it is Long. will cut it down some bc i wrote it in a mad frenzy at 3 am in my notes app last night but still
#tl;dr: roman is intensely empathetic and entirely devoid of sympathy. the seemingly contradictory displays of compassion vs disregard/
#cruelty are not contradictory at all and make complete sense if you understand the actual definitions of empathy and sympathy. i’d argue
#that while rome’s capacity for empathy stands out in a show a
#of people who are not prone to empathy his complete and total void of sympathy is much more unique in terms of humanity at large. it’s just
#a show filled w cruel people so it’s less noticeable that the forms of cruelty he displays are rooted in empathy/lack of sympathy rather
#than sympathy/lack of empathy like kendall and shiv (and just most people more generally)
#sympathy is predicated upon difference distance and logical dissection of emotion while empathy is rooted in identification intimacy and
#visceral experiences of emotion
#you guys just literally do not know what these words mean. but that’s fine ! most people do not ! they are frequently confused and conflated
#! that just doesn’t mean they SHOULD be. so . maybe i can help w that
#also for further reading edmund burke is an absolutely fascinating figure to read esp his writings on british imperialism
#although the term he uses is sympathy mehta & other later thinkers who have talked ab him have concluded that his cosmopolitanism of
#sentiments/sympathy is much more like the modern definition of empathy (the words have shifted meaning slightly over the course of history)
#or rather that the sentiment is empathy but the push to action is sympathy and combining together u get the cosmo. of sentiments
#but basically burke is the founder of modern conservative thought basically. he is also the only british thinker who at the time of british
#occupation of india actually spoke out against imperialism. this is because he viewed others not from a lens of sympathy/pity (feeling bad
#for their plight) but empathy (identifying with their circumstances and placing himself within them)
#love burke bc i find it so fascinating how someone i disagree with so frequently also holds a mindset that i value greatly and is anti-
#imperialism despite everything else about him
#kind of like rome in that sense. except rome’s sense of empathy is slightly broken because a) he doesn’t have any sympathy to supplement it
#with and b) his visceral/emotion/gut instinct leading way of viewing the world + the way obscene wealth makes the rest of reality feel
#fungible = inability to feel anything towards that which he does not identify
#and unlike burke rome is too skewed by wealth and his upbringing to see resemblance in the masses and empathize w them
#the other sibs function using sympathy and feel bad for the poor without having to relate to or understand them
#but roman doesn’t do sympathy. he doesn’t feel FOR people he feels what people are feeling instead
#but only so long as they’re seen as people. sympathy requires hierarchy so not viewing others as ppl v much allows for sympathy.
#empathy requires some level of perceived horizontality so rome cannot empathize w that which is not horizontal to him
#me: should i post this long thing? also me: posts another long thing in the tags that’s a long short summary of the much longer actual post
#anyways. ahem. back to work
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