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Uploaded by on May 6, 2010

Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.

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  • @lokadin Reincarnation is not a fact, it's a belief. 

  • @unclefrodo1 Utopia is the state of no suffering, since humans are mortal beings, suffering is inevitable. Although increased levels of empathy would indeed make the world a better place. 

  • we could attempt this, but i'm assuming there's always going to be come kind of conflict, whether over resources or religion, or anything else

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  • @coreyjohnrichardson Seems to me the video made fairly clear that we are "soft wired" for the empathetic changes that we have observed through various stages of "civilization". Obviously the world in which we live has a huge role in making those "soft" connections.

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