Our memetic auto immune disorder characterized.
Have you ever known someone who was SUPER empathic? I mean not just like "hey man, be kind to animals because they're our fellow travelers on this space ship called Earth" but more like, "Yes, I do identify with (insert the worst movie you have ever seen here) because I think that the artist is entitled to their own vision and I think the people who worked on it worked very hard and criticizing the quality of the movie might hurt their feelings."
Empathy is what separates us from Republicans. It is our strength. It is what allows us to confront (nominally) the world with a rational mind, even when we often react out of illogical passion. Empathy allows us to see things from the perspective of others. Empathy allows us to have humor and enshrines creativity.
Last week I posited a science fiction simulation on "The Fox Meme" regarding the blatant disregard of reality by those that have been taken over by it. They really are living in their own, entirely alien, consensus reality, and, memetically speaking they are quite hostile towards anything that does not fit their own memetic eco system. Xenologically hostile to all other forms of 'life.'
However, the rest of the eco system has a bit of a disease as well. I regard hyper empaths as kind of an immune system to the rest of the memetic culture. These wonderful people are those who join Human Rights Watch or Green Peace or a hundred and fifty years ago the abolitionist movement. These are people who are ahead of their time and set the trail blazing example for the rest of us to follow.
It is a wonderful thing and it is one of the reasons that, despite being the pessisimistic and often gloomy person that I am, I still consider the world a wonderful place.
But there is a special kind of hyper empath, one that is not healthy for the memetic culture as a whole. Broadly speaking the only way to deal with this is to use reason and understand how bad they are for our environment.
The cancerous hyper empath are those who empathize with the the Fox Meme to the point of hostility towards the rest of the eco system. In terms of life patterning, they're like cheat grass or the algea that has produced the dead zone off the Coast of Mexico by sucking all of the life out of the water.
These people, like Russ Feingold for example, are so insistent on following their own principals at the expense and health of everyone else that, though not part of the invasive Fox Meme, they are effectively enabling it. They attack those who want to destroy the Filibuster, despite its abuse, because "We Might Need it."
Understand, that I must clarify that there is a difference between those who disagree with me, and those who are memetic toxins. The primary difference is that some people can see the merit in defense of higher, more important principals like the Senate Rules and even the Constitution, and those who believe that the rules are more important than those the rules serve.