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Uploaded 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. Taken from a lecture given by Jeremy Rifkin as part of the RSA's free public events programme.
Watch the full lecture here: http://www.thersa.org/events/video/ar...

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Produced and edited by Abi Stephenson, RSA. Animation by Cognitive Media.

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  • ActronJimmy

    So basically, a society based on money being the most important thing there is, represses empathy because it makes people with more money feel better than and more important than others. And brings on secondary things like narcissism, materialism, violence, aggression.

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  • answerOfstupids

    basically we have traded happiness for survival.

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  • blueberryblablabla86

    I'm always curious what people, like you, who scream these kind of cliché slurs actually think is a viable alternative?

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  • Memento Mori

    ...then what?

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    Omg your drawing is amazing. I am so jealous.

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    Go vegan!

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  • izaatmusic

    there's no empathy in this world if there's foie gras being eaten everywhere in the world..

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  • petarded12

    down with capitalism! 

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  • ActronJimmy

    No, but he mentions that we lose our natural propensity towards empathy when it is repressed by bad parenting, education systems, business practices and government. When money is more important than people, our empathy for others is decreased or repressed because sometimes making money is at the detriment of people and society. Making money regardless of who or what it hurts. Sound familiar? It's happening every second of every day.

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  • Mason Rogers

    He didn't mention currency once.

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  • rattlehead199220

    This is why I have not lost faith in humanity...

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