Humanity’s greatest downfall

Humanity’s greatest downfall is thus:

“You are not me and I know not who you are to be, so my emotions and my actions are untethered to you”

This meaning that we rarely feel empathy when it is someone we have never met.

I am guilty of this. At sometime you were, if not still are as well. We developed the awareness for this sense during childhood. It can be dampened due to upbringing. Just as it could be enhanced.

We often are willfully neglectful to the other side. Let us take a brief description from Sciencedirect.com to explain the concept:

"Otherness is defined as the process by which groups distinguish themselves from others whom they devalue, often creating a dichotomy between the Self and the Other, influenced by cultural constructs and historical discourse. This concept encompasses varying forms of identity and categorization, particularly as seen in Western society’s reliance on binary logic"

This "Other" is an often mispercieved entity. It is overlooked and at times undermined for the sake of ease in connecting with one's environment. My auspicious audience, I ask you to ponder this: what of the Other's connection to their environment?

The Other's environment is shared by the Self in many aspects. Their claims to this environment run parallel. In many cases, the "Other" is simply the "Self" seen from a different perspective.

There are people that I will only ever recollect seeing once in my life. Some of these people were extremely rude. Majority without rhyme or reason. However, the last of those statements is subjective to my perspective. These individuals may have experienced a pain, trauma, irritant or malpractice that justifies their internal feelings and thoughts. This alone does not justify their external actions towards me, objectively. However, this may be seen contrarily if looked at subjectively from their point of view.

Empathy is an internal recognition of external circumstances.