Sounds good but really glosses over a lot. We are born into a predicament. In order for us to live we must kill. We are responsible for death every single day -for example when we take a mouthful of food. Life lives on itself. We need the 'other' to identify 'us' but also to simply keep 'us' alive. The clip does not address the complete experience of consciousness. Life is very much aggressive, competitive, and cannibalistic at its core AS WELL as empathic. This ALL needs to be acknowledged.
Why not transcend the concept of nationality? Because the narrow mindset of todays mankind needs not only an "us", but also a "them" to define his own identity.
The speaker misses his own point. Around 9:38, he starts to argue that we should empathize with our fellow humans. He describes a utopia where conflict would hardly take place. And, as he stated at 4:36, empathy is the opposite of utopia.
Existence is contrast. There is no joy in life without suffering. There is no peace without conflict. There is no love without hate. There is no empathy without apathy.
@teetsgator1 Let's assume everybody in the whole world is slightly empathic to everybody. I'd assume that there will be very little conflict, in fact, people will share many resources. To me, that sounds like a utopian world, but let's ignore that. Where is the suffering? I seriously doubt that the promise of disease and death is enough to cherish life so much that you'll feel the aforementioned empathy to others. To get there, you'd need to artificially introduce suffering.
nautral selection will do its job. Slowly, with technology, the younger generation is becoming alot more connected to people from all around the world. Bullshit is called out instantly. It's only going to get better. Look back a couple 100 years ago, people were burning each other for being witches. COuple 50 yrs ago and they were bruning black people for being black. Right now, people will kill people for being gay. IT is going to change and get better, i believe.
@MoonBHAA I like what you wrote MoonBHAA, but I must remind everyone that hundreds of people are still burned to death ever year for being accused of being witches, just not in the west. I don't think this discounts what you said but we haven't gotten to the point where western people as a whole are even aware of what gets printed in the papers of the world apparently. because India alone reports about three hundred women are burned to death as witches on average every year, to this very day.
@bluegreen1138 I understand, but that minority is going to fade away, I'm from India, so, i'll tell you right now. All those crazy cult like activities happen in small villages which is the equivalent of hicksville in USA haha if you know what I mean. To keep up with todays technology and advancement a person has to have a certain aptitude otherwise they can't survive with this fast moving society, those people will slowly fade away. Just like it has happened before, it will happen again.
@bluegreen1138 bt wthose statistics of 300 women is ridiculous, its more like 5 to 10 women. There is also honor killings, satti(widowed women burning themselves because of husbands death), and all kinds of other shenanigans. But, India also produces the largest number of doctors and IT servicemen. haha we shall overcome
@BrothaBlesstheMIC I think you're right about focusing on how what everyone has in common is bigger than what separates us. I was just saying, how do we get all the good - enlightened- aspects of a childlike view, where we played with anyone from any race or social-economic-status or weight without caring about those things, without going back to all the negative -irrational- aspects of a childlike point of view. No doubt we are taught how to hate based on those things.
The people running American government, local or Federal by and large lack the ability to empathize. This characteristic includes American economic institutions. The speed of information helps the ruling powers to increase data bases and their ability to increase their efficiency.
I disagree with the Haiti argument, here. In the aftermath of the destructive earth quake in Lisbon, Voltaire wrote: "Lisbon lies in ruins, and in Paris we dance." Our morality and empathy is instinctively based on our self interest and survival. I'm sure you, person reading my comment, have experienced some kind of emotional gray zone when hearing about some atrocity on the news. It's because we are not naturaly designed to have international empathy. But, being aware of this - we can change.
ehhh interesting but there's not enough science really behind this. There are many circumstances where we don't behave empathically and he seems to dismiss this. I think our cognitive evolution goes at a much slower rate than he's assuming
Absolutely loved this, but need to split hairs: Some religions saw other religions as brothers. Case in point, Hindus saw Jesus as an avatar of Krishna, therefore Christians were brothers. Guru Nanak saw Muslims and Hindus as followers of the same God and therefore were brothers. Today, Unitarian Universalists feel the same way with all religions, atheists, secular humanists, etc.
Another thing: nation states formed as consequence of war between Caths + Prot'nts, industrial rev. came waay after
That was real informative. I do believe there are moral imperatives that we need to take a deep look at and re-think the way we understand mankind. "For my kind. For mankind."
@JamesFox849 The video goes beyond that, though. Humans need to transcend "us" vs. "them" and stop dehumanizing ourselves and others. Racism is largely subtle/subconscious. We dehumanize ourselves and we have low self-esteem. We dehumanize others and we are narcissistic and arrogant. We use the Earth and dominate it, rather than act as its stewards and co-creators. We devalue animals as if they were not sacred like us. Empathy can help us see others as a "Thou" rather than an "it" to be used.
@StealThisIdentity But HOW do we expand our empathy? The video doesn't address this. How do we get back to the childlike view of nature where we didn't understand racism, when the trees and the animals were sacred, how do we get back there without falling victim to all this stupid, primitive childlike thoughts? That is the million dollar question. Read novels with protagonists who are very different? Take psychedelic drugs? Study pantheistic religions? Visualize connections? Feel and not think?
Lol, way to miss the point. You just defined the US government as an enemy just like the "people on the other side of the mountain." In other words, you contracted your empathetic circle to NOT include whatever you mean when you say "US Government." The video was trying to encourage the break down of arbitrary barriers to empathy, and you just erected one.
An important notation. Mitochondrial Eve lived, and died, 200,000 years ago while Y-chromosomal Adam lived, and died, 90,000 years ago. Therefore, these two "founders" never met each other since she died 110,000 years before he was born. They are closer to a "least common denominator" than "mother and father of the human race."
I love RSanimate, such videos would be a great addition to schools (well, except this one that refers to evolution, aw some people find it offensive to have a scientifically proven idea shared with their children)
you're kidding right? please tell me you're kidding?
RSA is the Royal Science Academy in England. That was to signify they were talking about it, nothing more. there is no new world empathic government. he's simply saying to care for those outside of our country as well, and other species, and the planet. to extend our existing empathy outward.
So the point that this video is trying to present is that a one-world "empathic" government is the solution to the world's ills? What elite group is going to sit at the top of the RSA pyramid to manage this rule of global "empathy"? What will happen to those who don't "fit" into this global empathic rule? It is interesting that the ethical prophet Jeremy uses a pyramid to symbolize this empathic ruling structure. He left out the eye in the middle of the RSA pyramid.
Interesting. Definitely interesting, but he's wrong about Haiti, in that the entire human race immediately aided Haiti. Only Western nations (namely the US, UK, Canada, and France) sent aid to Haiti. Non-western nations, even those of prominance (China, India, Japan, and Russia) refused the idea of sending aid to Haiti. i agree that this presents an interesting base theory, but I disagree in the assumption that such a theory is executable, and not doomed to utter collapse.
Japan sent relief workers to Haiti: dpj.or.jp/english/haiti/
Doctors, members of their self-defense force, and others. In fact, I believe they they just approved funding to continue relief efforts into this year.
@hillsonn You're right. I'm sorry. I'm not sure why I included Japan as an Eastern Nation, as it's been part of the Western World since WWII. That was my mistake.
It should be of note, however, that China, India, and Russia (two of the world's fastest growing economies, and what used to be the most formidable country in the world) rejected the idea of sending aid to Haiti.
@green17celtics You may very well be right. However, it's not the 2/3 people who commented on this video that stand in the way of it being correct, it's the 1.2 billion Chinese people and 1.1 Billion Indian people that reject the idea of aiding non-Chinese or non-Indian nation-states.
I get what he's saying but, I think in order to unite our race, we would need an alien race. We still need an alien society to be compared against in order to create an empathy because we are united be an enemy. The brotherhood is created through the idea that if a group of people are all threatened by the same enemy, then uniting in a single force benefits all of them.
@Awordofdifference what about the idea that we are empathic through our recognition of the frailty and preciousness of the human life? can that be a basis for uniting?
@Awordofdifference what about the idea that we develop empathy through the recognition of the frailty and preciousness of the human life. Is that not a vehicle for 'brotherhood'?
@Awordofdifference Absolutely correct, because despite the 'soft-wiring' to be empathic based on the idea of the frailty of life, there is still 'hard-wiring' which predates our species, and our entire Kingdom, to survive, and it is in that hard-wiring which we find the most powerful bonds, as it is these bonds which were the founding of tribes, nations, and international alliances.
Great video, there's one thing I'd like conformation on, if anyone would be so kind as to provide it, which would be his point about our genetic Adam and Eve that's mentioned towards the later part of the video. I've never heard this before and am curious about it.
@Cryforequanimity Basically, we can track our maternal genetic line through the mitochondrial DNA in our cells. Every human we know of can trace their maternal DNA all the way back to one woman almost 200,000 years ago. Then to trace the paternal DNA you have to look at the genetic code in the Y chromosome, everyone's paternal ancestry goes back to one man around 75,000 years ago.
Final Continuance: One quality society needs is empathy, but the society also needs others for its protection and survival who can act and not be affected by empathy. Humans in successful groups demonstrate both qualities. That may be why we learn to read and write and have developed all these marvelous communication devices. We cannot rely on “empathy” to get our messages across. Its not so simple my friends
Final Continuance: There are others whose hands show no ability to “love” but who can be motivated through empathy for the joy and pain of others, to avoid harm, do good works and be reliable family members. One of the things my work teaches is that there are many - many human qualities that go together to make a successful society, fr more than any of us can hope to possess on our own.
There may be other lines and features in the hand that lend themselves to the author's ministry of global connectedness feelings and understanding. Hand analysis with dermatoglyphics has taught me that we are each part of a much larger human mosaic, still developing. But there are hands and people with no empathy and if your think all have empathy, you might not be long for this world if you meet some of them and get on their wrong side. They can kill you and feel nothing.
Remarks continued. Empathy can be very useful to the nurse who will know when a crisis is developing before any bells and whistles go off. I discussed this with a dean of a nursing school over dinner and she confirmed that her school attempted to encourage this faculty in the students. I confirmed it use with a nurse who recently did work in Haiti but did not speak the language. He was quite able to triage from his empathetic senses.
I tell empathic students to sit in the back of the room, or by a wall where they can turn and face the class, cross their feet, wrap one arm around their paper as if guarding it, but in actuality, building a psychic wall around themselves while their backs can be protected,
At times empathetic children can be well prepared for a test, go into the class room, suddenly not be able to recall the answers, only to recall them again when they leave the test and the room. Why? Empathy. Someone in the test was not prepared and the panic that person felt blocked the answers in the empath’s mind. Move to nex post in time.
After they confirm ttheir love to dance, now I, in a joking manner, tell them why. They are psychic vampires. If they feel bad, they need to go to a dance where people are having fun and it will be at tonic for their mental health. Their surroundings dictate much of their moods. I also show them how to protect themselves from their surroundings. Empathy can be a big problem for children who have it when they take tests in schools while sitting in the front or middle of the class room.
Interesting fact and fiction mix of religious-political thought and pop psychological babble, with too much oversimplification. I am a hand analyst, lecture on behavioral and medical dermatoglyphics and write on both subjects. Empathy frequently shows up in some hands, most frequently in the Girdle of Venus. That line got bad press in Victorian Palmistry and became known as the line of prostitution. When I see it on a client I know they generally like to dance.
One critical question: why wouldn't there be empathy in heaven? Empathy as far as I experience it includes sharing in someone's joy. Why do we give gifts?
@SupositoryRepository I think Dawkins put it as "charitable lust." It's not so much you enjoying the reaction of another, rather than you feeling good about doing good for another. An example would be the ability to donate to the Haiti relief by sending a text message. People did it because it made them feel good, as if they were helping. There is no empathy there, you can't actually see someone's load lightening--you can't actually tell or know that you are helping.
I'm not talking about charity. I'm talking about sharing someone's joy. Why do we get happy for someone when some stroke of luck befalls them, or they achieve something great? Often it has no benefit to us at all, yet we smile with them and experience the joy. I know I do at least.
Indeed there is such a thing as empathizing with someone's joy, and that is where Rifkin misses the mark.
@a7xninja every scientific theory or law I've ever learned only deepens my faith in the God who created everything. The things that many scientists see as random evolution are so obviously by design that it makes me wonder when you will open your eyes. I understand you find that hard to believe. But Jesus is not a religion, not for me, Christianity is about having a relationship with the One who created us. That faith takes serious commitment. It's by no means a way to ease the conscience
@avs99rule That's definitely bullshit. Greek mythology was a disorganized, and persisted in a small peninsula in the Mediterranean for around 500 years before being spread out and persisting for another 100. Judaism has existed for over 3000 years, while remaining largely organized and permeating to much of the world. Christianity has been around for almost 2000 years, while remaining largely organized and dominating most of the world. Islam has existed for half as long, and done a similar job.
@Unilateralism power- up till world war 2 an individual has used divine rights to rule over their people. in the modern day there is no way people will accept the concept of a ruler because he was put there by god. on a smaller scale how many parents control their kids by using the idea of a god is watching them to keep them in line?
@avs99rule I'll agree that rulers once claimed divine right to rule, but you're mistaken in assuming people no longer believe in divine right. It is simply that they no longer believe in the divine right of kings, rather they believe, as John Locke put it, in the divine right of man.
And a large percentage of people, from the Middle-East, to the Americas, to Europe and Asia continue to use religious teachings to instill good behavior in children.
@Unilateralism explain the unknown- humans like to go to sleep at night not being afraid of the dark, concepts they cannot understand because of their limited knowledge. so they label things they dont understand as god did it, but nowadays as well the exponential growth of science is explaining more and more of our world, it's another reason why religion will fade out. yes, science does not explain everything, but i myself dont need to label what i don't understand as god did it to be contempt.
@avs99rule People do like the reassurance that a higher power controls the universe, and it's also true that science continues to explain more and more of the universe. However, the fact that science will never (within the span of our species collective lifetime) be able to explain all experiences, coupled with the truth that no one man will ever fully understand all branches of the scientific world, reinforces the necessity of a higher being to bring comfort to people.
@Unilateralism the reason christianity and islam have spread so large is due to the power aspect. christianity was forced upon many races, and the muslim tradition has a strict brainwash mindset to it. i agree it will not fade in the near future, but it will nevertheless fade as more and more people break away from the three aspects of religion i explained.
@avs99rule Not true. Many South American are more devoutly Christian now then they were in the 1400-1500's (when it was forced upon them). True they were forced into it, but they have adapted to it and made it their own, and adopted it as a source of comfort, unity and community within their own cultures. And Islam only adopted this mindset very recently (post-WWII), and since then has continued to grow at nearly the same rate it did prior to adopting it.
@avs99rule And it will not fade in the near future. More then likely, it will never fade, for a number of reasons which you failed to mention: 1) it encourages people to behave for the betterment of the collective religion, and discourages selfish actions. 2) it lays the foundation for a solid, actively competitive culture, which will eternally out-compete non-religious groups (for example, the early Muslims formed a more cohesive and effective society then their nomadic brothers).
@avs99rule Further, despite the perceived superiority of a scientifically defined community, there is the inherent issue that it's nearly impossible to get a large percentage (greater then 75%) to fully understand all the implications of such a defining group of shared beliefs, where as 'God is watching no matter where you are or what you do and will punish you for it' is fairly straightforward and easily understood by an overwhelming majority of the populace.
@avs99rule Christians, Muslims, and Jews made the foundation for the modern world, and have remained an integral part of humanity throughout our history. To say the two largest groups in the world and the oldest continuously existent group in the world will disappear within the foreseeable future is pure nonsensical, naive bullshit.
@Unilateralism all religions serve the same purpose: morals, power, and to explain the unknown.
morals- they dont need to be taught from a book; every human being should understand empathy, and that they should not inflict any emotion on another in which they themselves would not want to receive. this is one of the strongest uphold of religion in modern day, and even with that more and more people understand this concept without having to follow religion
@avs99rule You're not incorrect, but you forget that an important aspect of every successful religion is also to provide the foundations for a competent society. And 'should' is a term that you can't use when speaking in terms of people. People 'should' not steal, cheat, kill, rape, or do drugs, but they 'do'. Likewise, people 'should' understand empathy, but they don't. And you say more and more people understand this without religion, while obviously ignoring that religions are still growing.
That is such a superficial way of looking at life. It is not simply 'random evolution'. In fact the utter lack of design in the universe makes it many levels of magnitude just to consider being alive today! How dangerous everything is, how and unstable everything else is. These are not features a good designer incorporates into a universe. And whether you like it or not, your description as yourself in a relationship with JC STILL puts into def 1. of "Religion" in the dictionary!
Furthermore, I want to say that I believe that you do not THINK your faith in God is simply a way of easing the concsience, and I also believe that you are right. A belief in God goes so much further than that most atheists (myself being one) do not even understand the importance of belief and faith in religious traditions. The mind is such a powerful thing, it can make us mistake God for it. The placebo effect can actually ellicit physiological responses in patients.
So science has found that we are hard-wired to love each other and to show mercy and compassion.
" I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another."
John 13: 34
What Jesus asks of us is not impossible, we were given the tools at our very creation. True empathy is difficult, but if we love each other it can be achieved.
@englishshaw Open your eyes, science will soon disprove religion. Why would you refernece Jesus to a evolutionary science video? Tho if it eases your conscience be my guest.
wow, 4 once science is foun ha ha! but really, that was a really life changing sorta thing, reminds me of radiolab, but yeah...that must've been one big ass whiteboard
Extremely well executed animation. What made it even more intriguing is that what I previously believed in, the selfish drives and the id being most prominent, was actually contradicted with very acceptable arguments that made me revise my thoughts. For example, his point about Haiti, which I viewed as a actually selfish "altruistic" action to simply raise one's self-ego and reputation.
@NickSpore I can understand empathic connections being made through the superego (formed by society), but I don't entirely accept his argument that it is the first drive. I mean the first baby that cried represents that first drive, doesn't it? Greed, want, selfishness? Attributes of the id.
@sublimeisdope That's honestly one of my greatest wishes. TV could be such a magical medium for social networking and political change- but instead it is full of total and unequivocal garbage.
@sublimeisdope I like how you immediately start talking shit the moment after watching a 10 minute video on empathy providing a potential key to social/ philosophical/ scientific/ peaceful progression.
I hate it when people download and re-upload other peoples content in worse quality.... This person should have downvotes galore.
Search instead for RSA Animate.
superibimus 4 months ago 2
That's one bigass whiteboard
LeviCoultify 4 months ago
Bravo!!!
nancyanny 4 months ago
Really informative but he kinda sounds like smart Peter Griffin
Luisguadarrama11 4 months ago
I love how the pictures aren't all linear. It has such nice flow. :D
MooCowMilkshakes 4 months ago
This really helped me with my research. Thanks a lot!
TheHapplesComic 4 months ago
my head exploded, but with joy
FunnyRumel2 4 months ago
why does that man that is drawn at about 0:31 have testicles but no penis
cunnelatio 4 months ago 2
The response to Haiti was politically correct BS
Mikemaladar 4 months ago
@Mikemaladar your comment=BS.
halation777 4 months ago
I know pure win when I see it.
sweYoda2 4 months ago
Sounds good but really glosses over a lot. We are born into a predicament. In order for us to live we must kill. We are responsible for death every single day -for example when we take a mouthful of food. Life lives on itself. We need the 'other' to identify 'us' but also to simply keep 'us' alive. The clip does not address the complete experience of consciousness. Life is very much aggressive, competitive, and cannibalistic at its core AS WELL as empathic. This ALL needs to be acknowledged.
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Basically, this would mean world peace?
HagenTheMaster 4 months ago
You spelled Civilization wrong.
Ducksbyday 4 months ago
@Ducksbyday
Scumbag Ducksbyday: Watches video calling for international empathy. Calls spelling wrong for not being in his own local variant of English.
BrandNewLtd 4 months ago 8
@BrandNewLtd Scumbag Brits. Been speaking the language longer, still cant spell right.
Ducksbyday 4 months ago
@Ducksbyday
Websters isn't the only dictionary on English. Canadians and Brits use Oxford spelling.
Di0genesus 4 months ago
@Di0genesus Glad we got free of the Brits when we did. To bad poor canada didnt have anything to fight for!
Ducksbyday 4 months ago
@Ducksbyday Hey now... Show some empathy
Pashaman11 4 months ago
lol did he steal this video ...
hippodude100 4 months ago
This video makes me tear up every time.
jettricks1989 4 months ago 2
Why not transcend the concept of nationality? Because the narrow mindset of todays mankind needs not only an "us", but also a "them" to define his own identity.
x4el 4 months ago 2
The speaker misses his own point. Around 9:38, he starts to argue that we should empathize with our fellow humans. He describes a utopia where conflict would hardly take place. And, as he stated at 4:36, empathy is the opposite of utopia.
Existence is contrast. There is no joy in life without suffering. There is no peace without conflict. There is no love without hate. There is no empathy without apathy.
LeTinctoire 4 months ago
@LeTinctoire When does he say that he is talking about creating a Utopia? All he is trying to encourage is an empathic civilization.
teetsgator1 4 months ago
@teetsgator1 Let's assume everybody in the whole world is slightly empathic to everybody. I'd assume that there will be very little conflict, in fact, people will share many resources. To me, that sounds like a utopian world, but let's ignore that. Where is the suffering? I seriously doubt that the promise of disease and death is enough to cherish life so much that you'll feel the aforementioned empathy to others. To get there, you'd need to artificially introduce suffering.
LeTinctoire 4 months ago
One of the most amazing videos out there
pedroalberto92 4 months ago
nautral selection will do its job. Slowly, with technology, the younger generation is becoming alot more connected to people from all around the world. Bullshit is called out instantly. It's only going to get better. Look back a couple 100 years ago, people were burning each other for being witches. COuple 50 yrs ago and they were bruning black people for being black. Right now, people will kill people for being gay. IT is going to change and get better, i believe.
MoonBHAA 4 months ago
@MoonBHAA I like what you wrote MoonBHAA, but I must remind everyone that hundreds of people are still burned to death ever year for being accused of being witches, just not in the west. I don't think this discounts what you said but we haven't gotten to the point where western people as a whole are even aware of what gets printed in the papers of the world apparently. because India alone reports about three hundred women are burned to death as witches on average every year, to this very day.
bluegreen1138 4 months ago
@bluegreen1138 I understand, but that minority is going to fade away, I'm from India, so, i'll tell you right now. All those crazy cult like activities happen in small villages which is the equivalent of hicksville in USA haha if you know what I mean. To keep up with todays technology and advancement a person has to have a certain aptitude otherwise they can't survive with this fast moving society, those people will slowly fade away. Just like it has happened before, it will happen again.
MoonBHAA 4 months ago
@bluegreen1138 bt wthose statistics of 300 women is ridiculous, its more like 5 to 10 women. There is also honor killings, satti(widowed women burning themselves because of husbands death), and all kinds of other shenanigans. But, India also produces the largest number of doctors and IT servicemen. haha we shall overcome
MoonBHAA 4 months ago
@BrothaBlesstheMIC I think you're right about focusing on how what everyone has in common is bigger than what separates us. I was just saying, how do we get all the good - enlightened- aspects of a childlike view, where we played with anyone from any race or social-economic-status or weight without caring about those things, without going back to all the negative -irrational- aspects of a childlike point of view. No doubt we are taught how to hate based on those things.
StealThisIdentity 6 months ago
The people running American government, local or Federal by and large lack the ability to empathize. This characteristic includes American economic institutions. The speed of information helps the ruling powers to increase data bases and their ability to increase their efficiency.
DavidHill333 7 months ago
Damnh. I wished he could have zoomed out to show all the drawings.
yackon4game 7 months ago 2
White power!...just kidding :) Good video though.
dangerusdave44 7 months ago
I disagree with the Haiti argument, here. In the aftermath of the destructive earth quake in Lisbon, Voltaire wrote: "Lisbon lies in ruins, and in Paris we dance." Our morality and empathy is instinctively based on our self interest and survival. I'm sure you, person reading my comment, have experienced some kind of emotional gray zone when hearing about some atrocity on the news. It's because we are not naturaly designed to have international empathy. But, being aware of this - we can change.
SigDrums 7 months ago
ehhh interesting but there's not enough science really behind this. There are many circumstances where we don't behave empathically and he seems to dismiss this. I think our cognitive evolution goes at a much slower rate than he's assuming
BruceBruceton 8 months ago
Part of how people define who they are is by differentiating who they are not.
mbevks 9 months ago
Video based on too many assumptions that are probably not true.
mbevks 9 months ago
this is interesting and i applaud you for getting people to think.
however, this is full of assumptions and not to be taken seriously or scientifically.
thanks for the cute video!
a3rialst4rr 9 months ago
I really, really dislike his odd inclusion of utilitarianism alongside selfishness, aggression and materialism.
I can't help but conclude he hasn't fully understood his Bentham or Mill.
dmerfield 9 months ago
Absolutely loved this, but need to split hairs: Some religions saw other religions as brothers. Case in point, Hindus saw Jesus as an avatar of Krishna, therefore Christians were brothers. Guru Nanak saw Muslims and Hindus as followers of the same God and therefore were brothers. Today, Unitarian Universalists feel the same way with all religions, atheists, secular humanists, etc.
Another thing: nation states formed as consequence of war between Caths + Prot'nts, industrial rev. came waay after
StealThisIdentity 9 months ago
I LOVE THIS!! Amazing Thank you!! Luv xo Lydia (Cornell)
GODSHOTSDAILY 10 months ago
this is very interesting viewpoint! Check it out.
BillLea313 10 months ago
That was real informative. I do believe there are moral imperatives that we need to take a deep look at and re-think the way we understand mankind. "For my kind. For mankind."
samusoctology88 10 months ago
Well... Duh... Human's evolved to be a social species, it wouldn't make much sense if we didn't help each other out now would it?
This is why I don't agree with William Golding.
JamesFox849 11 months ago
@JamesFox849 The video goes beyond that, though. Humans need to transcend "us" vs. "them" and stop dehumanizing ourselves and others. Racism is largely subtle/subconscious. We dehumanize ourselves and we have low self-esteem. We dehumanize others and we are narcissistic and arrogant. We use the Earth and dominate it, rather than act as its stewards and co-creators. We devalue animals as if they were not sacred like us. Empathy can help us see others as a "Thou" rather than an "it" to be used.
StealThisIdentity 9 months ago
@StealThisIdentity But HOW do we expand our empathy? The video doesn't address this. How do we get back to the childlike view of nature where we didn't understand racism, when the trees and the animals were sacred, how do we get back there without falling victim to all this stupid, primitive childlike thoughts? That is the million dollar question. Read novels with protagonists who are very different? Take psychedelic drugs? Study pantheistic religions? Visualize connections? Feel and not think?
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Made me cry, the truth isnt as negative as our government would love for us to believe.
adeheartsu 11 months ago
Made me cry, the truth isnt as negative as our government would love for us to believe.
adeheartsu 11 months ago 2
@adeheartsu
Lol, way to miss the point. You just defined the US government as an enemy just like the "people on the other side of the mountain." In other words, you contracted your empathetic circle to NOT include whatever you mean when you say "US Government." The video was trying to encourage the break down of arbitrary barriers to empathy, and you just erected one.
paulmarko 5 months ago
This is a beautiful video. Almost made me cry!
SarahThePill 11 months ago
wow, this is good.
ateee11 11 months ago
An important notation. Mitochondrial Eve lived, and died, 200,000 years ago while Y-chromosomal Adam lived, and died, 90,000 years ago. Therefore, these two "founders" never met each other since she died 110,000 years before he was born. They are closer to a "least common denominator" than "mother and father of the human race."
Viperzka 1 year ago 60
*as
randompurple35 1 year ago
Very interesting! Great condensed talk.
I love RSanimate, such videos would be a great addition to schools (well, except this one that refers to evolution, aw some people find it offensive to have a scientifically proven idea shared with their children)
randompurple35 1 year ago
~~ONE Love~~~~~
16Gitz 1 year ago
BRILLIANT!!!
natdes777 1 year ago
Dang.
that's sweet!
knn360 1 year ago
this is beautiful!
Soy92Joy 1 year ago
what about people who don't have empathy?
sincityfire 1 year ago
This is just amazing
philosophermike 1 year ago
really would like to thank everyone involved in the production of this video. you did a superb job
kreme228 1 year ago
@kreme228
you're kidding right? please tell me you're kidding?
RSA is the Royal Science Academy in England. That was to signify they were talking about it, nothing more. there is no new world empathic government. he's simply saying to care for those outside of our country as well, and other species, and the planet. to extend our existing empathy outward.
i really hope you were just trolling
foxfairandbalanced 1 year ago
So the point that this video is trying to present is that a one-world "empathic" government is the solution to the world's ills? What elite group is going to sit at the top of the RSA pyramid to manage this rule of global "empathy"? What will happen to those who don't "fit" into this global empathic rule? It is interesting that the ethical prophet Jeremy uses a pyramid to symbolize this empathic ruling structure. He left out the eye in the middle of the RSA pyramid.
prizmhouse 1 year ago
Ah shut up.
Fronika 1 year ago
IF you like this, you should check out TED.com!!
lancethrustworthy 1 year ago 2
This dude's a genius.
awesomeness158 1 year ago
Interesting. Definitely interesting, but he's wrong about Haiti, in that the entire human race immediately aided Haiti. Only Western nations (namely the US, UK, Canada, and France) sent aid to Haiti. Non-western nations, even those of prominance (China, India, Japan, and Russia) refused the idea of sending aid to Haiti. i agree that this presents an interesting base theory, but I disagree in the assumption that such a theory is executable, and not doomed to utter collapse.
Unilateralism 1 year ago
@Unilateralism
Japan sent relief workers to Haiti: dpj.or.jp/english/haiti/
Doctors, members of their self-defense force, and others. In fact, I believe they they just approved funding to continue relief efforts into this year.
hillsonn 1 year ago
@hillsonn You're right. I'm sorry. I'm not sure why I included Japan as an Eastern Nation, as it's been part of the Western World since WWII. That was my mistake.
It should be of note, however, that China, India, and Russia (two of the world's fastest growing economies, and what used to be the most formidable country in the world) rejected the idea of sending aid to Haiti.
Unilateralism 1 year ago
Outstanding.
Rodes27 1 year ago
wow
olafwestra 1 year ago
I hope this man makes loads of cash. He deserves it.
ThatOneCoolBro 1 year ago
Informatively mind blowing.
MrBored999 1 year ago 16
Informatively mind blowing.
MrBored999 1 year ago
2 rednecks disliked this
green17celtics 1 year ago
@green17celtics You may very well be right. However, it's not the 2/3 people who commented on this video that stand in the way of it being correct, it's the 1.2 billion Chinese people and 1.1 Billion Indian people that reject the idea of aiding non-Chinese or non-Indian nation-states.
Unilateralism 1 year ago
I get what he's saying but, I think in order to unite our race, we would need an alien race. We still need an alien society to be compared against in order to create an empathy because we are united be an enemy. The brotherhood is created through the idea that if a group of people are all threatened by the same enemy, then uniting in a single force benefits all of them.
Awordofdifference 1 year ago 2
@Awordofdifference what about the idea that we are empathic through our recognition of the frailty and preciousness of the human life? can that be a basis for uniting?
dholloch 1 year ago
@Awordofdifference what about the idea that we develop empathy through the recognition of the frailty and preciousness of the human life. Is that not a vehicle for 'brotherhood'?
dholloch 1 year ago
@Awordofdifference Absolutely correct, because despite the 'soft-wiring' to be empathic based on the idea of the frailty of life, there is still 'hard-wiring' which predates our species, and our entire Kingdom, to survive, and it is in that hard-wiring which we find the most powerful bonds, as it is these bonds which were the founding of tribes, nations, and international alliances.
Unilateralism 1 year ago
Incredible! Thanks for this!
mauimouth 1 year ago
couldn't agree with the book or this concept more. I'm a socialist, I'm constantly told human nature is fundamentally selfish, I beg to differ.
kucinichgrayson2012 1 year ago 2
Go to ted.com, I'm pretty sure that's where they go the audio.
sgtpepper12880 1 year ago
this needs more views. way more views
wetigers3030 1 year ago
Thanks for putting your lectures out there.
You guys are really inspiring and raise the issues which are impowering to us as higher human consciousness. Kia ora
mapihimauirea 1 year ago
loves it.
tuesdaymalone 1 year ago
Great video, there's one thing I'd like conformation on, if anyone would be so kind as to provide it, which would be his point about our genetic Adam and Eve that's mentioned towards the later part of the video. I've never heard this before and am curious about it.
Cryforequanimity 1 year ago
@Cryforequanimity Basically, we can track our maternal genetic line through the mitochondrial DNA in our cells. Every human we know of can trace their maternal DNA all the way back to one woman almost 200,000 years ago. Then to trace the paternal DNA you have to look at the genetic code in the Y chromosome, everyone's paternal ancestry goes back to one man around 75,000 years ago.
Vol7ar 1 year ago
W O W ! ! ! ! Thank You !
mischa1546 1 year ago
watch?v=MQQqDRFpNys
stratman06 1 year ago
Suddenly, I don't feel so bad for being human.
Yomioka 1 year ago
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lupischuckle 1 year ago
Final Continuance: One quality society needs is empathy, but the society also needs others for its protection and survival who can act and not be affected by empathy. Humans in successful groups demonstrate both qualities. That may be why we learn to read and write and have developed all these marvelous communication devices. We cannot rely on “empathy” to get our messages across. Its not so simple my friends
handreadered 1 year ago
Final Continuance: There are others whose hands show no ability to “love” but who can be motivated through empathy for the joy and pain of others, to avoid harm, do good works and be reliable family members. One of the things my work teaches is that there are many - many human qualities that go together to make a successful society, fr more than any of us can hope to possess on our own.
handreadered 1 year ago
There may be other lines and features in the hand that lend themselves to the author's ministry of global connectedness feelings and understanding. Hand analysis with dermatoglyphics has taught me that we are each part of a much larger human mosaic, still developing. But there are hands and people with no empathy and if your think all have empathy, you might not be long for this world if you meet some of them and get on their wrong side. They can kill you and feel nothing.
handreadered 1 year ago
Remarks continued. Empathy can be very useful to the nurse who will know when a crisis is developing before any bells and whistles go off. I discussed this with a dean of a nursing school over dinner and she confirmed that her school attempted to encourage this faculty in the students. I confirmed it use with a nurse who recently did work in Haiti but did not speak the language. He was quite able to triage from his empathetic senses.
handreadered 1 year ago
I tell empathic students to sit in the back of the room, or by a wall where they can turn and face the class, cross their feet, wrap one arm around their paper as if guarding it, but in actuality, building a psychic wall around themselves while their backs can be protected,
handreadered 1 year ago
At times empathetic children can be well prepared for a test, go into the class room, suddenly not be able to recall the answers, only to recall them again when they leave the test and the room. Why? Empathy. Someone in the test was not prepared and the panic that person felt blocked the answers in the empath’s mind. Move to nex post in time.
handreadered 1 year ago
After they confirm ttheir love to dance, now I, in a joking manner, tell them why. They are psychic vampires. If they feel bad, they need to go to a dance where people are having fun and it will be at tonic for their mental health. Their surroundings dictate much of their moods. I also show them how to protect themselves from their surroundings. Empathy can be a big problem for children who have it when they take tests in schools while sitting in the front or middle of the class room.
handreadered 1 year ago
Interesting fact and fiction mix of religious-political thought and pop psychological babble, with too much oversimplification. I am a hand analyst, lecture on behavioral and medical dermatoglyphics and write on both subjects. Empathy frequently shows up in some hands, most frequently in the Girdle of Venus. That line got bad press in Victorian Palmistry and became known as the line of prostitution. When I see it on a client I know they generally like to dance.
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handreadered 1 year ago
One critical question: why wouldn't there be empathy in heaven? Empathy as far as I experience it includes sharing in someone's joy. Why do we give gifts?
SupositoryRepository 1 year ago
@SupositoryRepository Have you ever heard of someone empathizing with someone's joy? - I bet not.
I bet you have heard of someone, or experienced, empathizing with someone's pain.
56jmoney 1 year ago
@SupositoryRepository I think Dawkins put it as "charitable lust." It's not so much you enjoying the reaction of another, rather than you feeling good about doing good for another. An example would be the ability to donate to the Haiti relief by sending a text message. People did it because it made them feel good, as if they were helping. There is no empathy there, you can't actually see someone's load lightening--you can't actually tell or know that you are helping.
Mousoukyou 1 year ago
@Mousoukyou
I'm not talking about charity. I'm talking about sharing someone's joy. Why do we get happy for someone when some stroke of luck befalls them, or they achieve something great? Often it has no benefit to us at all, yet we smile with them and experience the joy. I know I do at least.
Indeed there is such a thing as empathizing with someone's joy, and that is where Rifkin misses the mark.
SupositoryRepository 1 year ago
Awesome video! I'm already feeling more empathy for the human race (sorry animals, I'm not there yet).
JZ909 1 year ago
A more appropriate title for this video would be "Overdrawn Conclusions".
CognitiveImbias 1 year ago
@a7xninja every scientific theory or law I've ever learned only deepens my faith in the God who created everything. The things that many scientists see as random evolution are so obviously by design that it makes me wonder when you will open your eyes. I understand you find that hard to believe. But Jesus is not a religion, not for me, Christianity is about having a relationship with the One who created us. That faith takes serious commitment. It's by no means a way to ease the conscience
englishshaw 1 year ago
@englishshaw ever heard of the greek mythology? soon you'll hear about the christian, jewish, and muslim mythology.
avs99rule 1 year ago 61
@avs99rule That's definitely bullshit. Greek mythology was a disorganized, and persisted in a small peninsula in the Mediterranean for around 500 years before being spread out and persisting for another 100. Judaism has existed for over 3000 years, while remaining largely organized and permeating to much of the world. Christianity has been around for almost 2000 years, while remaining largely organized and dominating most of the world. Islam has existed for half as long, and done a similar job.
Unilateralism 1 year ago
@Unilateralism power- up till world war 2 an individual has used divine rights to rule over their people. in the modern day there is no way people will accept the concept of a ruler because he was put there by god. on a smaller scale how many parents control their kids by using the idea of a god is watching them to keep them in line?
avs99rule 1 year ago
@avs99rule I'll agree that rulers once claimed divine right to rule, but you're mistaken in assuming people no longer believe in divine right. It is simply that they no longer believe in the divine right of kings, rather they believe, as John Locke put it, in the divine right of man.
And a large percentage of people, from the Middle-East, to the Americas, to Europe and Asia continue to use religious teachings to instill good behavior in children.
Unilateralism 1 year ago
@Unilateralism explain the unknown- humans like to go to sleep at night not being afraid of the dark, concepts they cannot understand because of their limited knowledge. so they label things they dont understand as god did it, but nowadays as well the exponential growth of science is explaining more and more of our world, it's another reason why religion will fade out. yes, science does not explain everything, but i myself dont need to label what i don't understand as god did it to be contempt.
avs99rule 1 year ago
@avs99rule People do like the reassurance that a higher power controls the universe, and it's also true that science continues to explain more and more of the universe. However, the fact that science will never (within the span of our species collective lifetime) be able to explain all experiences, coupled with the truth that no one man will ever fully understand all branches of the scientific world, reinforces the necessity of a higher being to bring comfort to people.
Unilateralism 1 year ago
@Unilateralism the reason christianity and islam have spread so large is due to the power aspect. christianity was forced upon many races, and the muslim tradition has a strict brainwash mindset to it. i agree it will not fade in the near future, but it will nevertheless fade as more and more people break away from the three aspects of religion i explained.
avs99rule 1 year ago
@avs99rule Not true. Many South American are more devoutly Christian now then they were in the 1400-1500's (when it was forced upon them). True they were forced into it, but they have adapted to it and made it their own, and adopted it as a source of comfort, unity and community within their own cultures. And Islam only adopted this mindset very recently (post-WWII), and since then has continued to grow at nearly the same rate it did prior to adopting it.
Unilateralism 1 year ago
@avs99rule And it will not fade in the near future. More then likely, it will never fade, for a number of reasons which you failed to mention: 1) it encourages people to behave for the betterment of the collective religion, and discourages selfish actions. 2) it lays the foundation for a solid, actively competitive culture, which will eternally out-compete non-religious groups (for example, the early Muslims formed a more cohesive and effective society then their nomadic brothers).
Unilateralism 1 year ago
@avs99rule Further, despite the perceived superiority of a scientifically defined community, there is the inherent issue that it's nearly impossible to get a large percentage (greater then 75%) to fully understand all the implications of such a defining group of shared beliefs, where as 'God is watching no matter where you are or what you do and will punish you for it' is fairly straightforward and easily understood by an overwhelming majority of the populace.
Unilateralism 1 year ago
@avs99rule Christians, Muslims, and Jews made the foundation for the modern world, and have remained an integral part of humanity throughout our history. To say the two largest groups in the world and the oldest continuously existent group in the world will disappear within the foreseeable future is pure nonsensical, naive bullshit.
Unilateralism 1 year ago
@Unilateralism all religions serve the same purpose: morals, power, and to explain the unknown.
morals- they dont need to be taught from a book; every human being should understand empathy, and that they should not inflict any emotion on another in which they themselves would not want to receive. this is one of the strongest uphold of religion in modern day, and even with that more and more people understand this concept without having to follow religion
avs99rule 1 year ago
@avs99rule You're not incorrect, but you forget that an important aspect of every successful religion is also to provide the foundations for a competent society. And 'should' is a term that you can't use when speaking in terms of people. People 'should' not steal, cheat, kill, rape, or do drugs, but they 'do'. Likewise, people 'should' understand empathy, but they don't. And you say more and more people understand this without religion, while obviously ignoring that religions are still growing.
Unilateralism 1 year ago
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Th3BrOwNGuY 1 year ago
@avs99rule Soon? You already do. Go on wikipedia type all those in lol
TheEthanwashere 7 months ago
@englishshaw
That is such a superficial way of looking at life. It is not simply 'random evolution'. In fact the utter lack of design in the universe makes it many levels of magnitude just to consider being alive today! How dangerous everything is, how and unstable everything else is. These are not features a good designer incorporates into a universe. And whether you like it or not, your description as yourself in a relationship with JC STILL puts into def 1. of "Religion" in the dictionary!
VitaminTMan 1 year ago
@englishshaw
Cont'd.
Furthermore, I want to say that I believe that you do not THINK your faith in God is simply a way of easing the concsience, and I also believe that you are right. A belief in God goes so much further than that most atheists (myself being one) do not even understand the importance of belief and faith in religious traditions. The mind is such a powerful thing, it can make us mistake God for it. The placebo effect can actually ellicit physiological responses in patients.
VitaminTMan 1 year ago
Simply brilliant. I think this video could open up peoples minds who don't think this way already. Well broken down.
THE1CALLEDJ 1 year ago
So science has found that we are hard-wired to love each other and to show mercy and compassion.
" I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another."
John 13: 34
What Jesus asks of us is not impossible, we were given the tools at our very creation. True empathy is difficult, but if we love each other it can be achieved.
englishshaw 1 year ago
@englishshaw Open your eyes, science will soon disprove religion. Why would you refernece Jesus to a evolutionary science video? Tho if it eases your conscience be my guest.
a7xninja 1 year ago
as Imam Ali 3 said1400 years ago :
Poeple,are either brothers to you in the same religion, or an eqivalent to you in the same species
(not exact translation)
this is simply the answer
shaitoonbee 1 year ago
wow, 4 once science is foun ha ha! but really, that was a really life changing sorta thing, reminds me of radiolab, but yeah...that must've been one big ass whiteboard
happyjack585 1 year ago
Extremely well executed animation. What made it even more intriguing is that what I previously believed in, the selfish drives and the id being most prominent, was actually contradicted with very acceptable arguments that made me revise my thoughts. For example, his point about Haiti, which I viewed as a actually selfish "altruistic" action to simply raise one's self-ego and reputation.
NickSpore 1 year ago
@NickSpore I can understand empathic connections being made through the superego (formed by society), but I don't entirely accept his argument that it is the first drive. I mean the first baby that cried represents that first drive, doesn't it? Greed, want, selfishness? Attributes of the id.
NickSpore 1 year ago
how big is that white board
awesomenessintheface 1 year ago
@awesomenessintheface I was literally just thinking the same thing
CastielFTW 1 year ago
great animation!
kakashigirl350 1 year ago
this is easy to say, but you need to specify what is far-fetched before your doubtfulness seeds itself within me.
W1NT3RMU7E 1 year ago
Honestly one of the best things I have ever seen. It is worth 10 minutes and 40 seconds of your life.
lnnocent 1 year ago
hmm some of the ideas are a bit of a stretch
zoooooopopo 1 year ago
could you imagine a tv channel that broadcasted vids like this instead of the utter crap that oozes out of it now?
sublimeisdope 1 year ago 119
@sublimeisdope
That's why you should turn off the tv and listen to NPR. I heard Jeremy Rivken for an hour on NPR 6 months ago or so.
SupositoryRepository 1 year ago
@sublimeisdope That's honestly one of my greatest wishes. TV could be such a magical medium for social networking and political change- but instead it is full of total and unequivocal garbage.
lupischuckle 1 year ago
@sublimeisdope I like how you immediately start talking shit the moment after watching a 10 minute video on empathy providing a potential key to social/ philosophical/ scientific/ peaceful progression.
ZeroToNowhere 1 year ago
@sublimeisdope Discovery (some of it) and National Geographic?
EchoplexTheUltimatum 1 year ago
so this basically says, just like mencius' claim, that human nature is good
rcmontecalvo 1 year ago
Thank u for sharing this info! Amazing and we must spread the word so others watch :)
nataliemedia 1 year ago