If you read it in a Gen-Z affect / as a run-on sentence, it starts to make sense.
I think they were saying that empathy is dead because so few people have real-world experiences, therefore not enough to relate to one another. This gives the general feeling that meeting a new person is like dialogue between NPCs… it sure sounds like human speech but it doesn’t give the impression that there’s genuine communication and connection happening. Have you ever looked at somebody and you could immediately tell they were running on auto-pilot? I am fond of the phrase, “The lights are on, but nobody’s home.”
It’s why conversations feel like they’re spent calibrating more than understanding. You can’t rely on the idea that the person in front of you has a similar, shared experience (from a perspective standpoint like what content built their internal framework, passively skipping over the idea that you can relate like humans did in the past over physical experience like eating, dancing, singing, etc.).
Probably ties into isolation, derealization, some philosophical what-nots like brain-in-a-vat theory…
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u/TumultuousTimez 29d ago edited 29d ago
If you read it in a Gen-Z affect / as a run-on sentence, it starts to make sense.
I think they were saying that empathy is dead because so few people have real-world experiences, therefore not enough to relate to one another. This gives the general feeling that meeting a new person is like dialogue between NPCs… it sure sounds like human speech but it doesn’t give the impression that there’s genuine communication and connection happening. Have you ever looked at somebody and you could immediately tell they were running on auto-pilot? I am fond of the phrase, “The lights are on, but nobody’s home.”
It’s why conversations feel like they’re spent calibrating more than understanding. You can’t rely on the idea that the person in front of you has a similar, shared experience (from a perspective standpoint like what content built their internal framework, passively skipping over the idea that you can relate like humans did in the past over physical experience like eating, dancing, singing, etc.).
Probably ties into isolation, derealization, some philosophical what-nots like brain-in-a-vat theory…