A bit about empathy

Empathy is one of the many parameters that make up who we are. If you are very empathetic you have probably cried in the cinema at some movies. If you are not empathetic at all you might be a psychopath and that would be bad. We need empathy in any functioning society. It allows us to to come to Win-Win situations. It also stops us from doing horrible things to others. About 5% of the population is psychopathic. Fortunately psychopaths can not spread their genes very well because they are not good at maintaining relations and if they get children they will be certainly disadvantaged by their upbringing. You could call that a negative feedback loop. So a heathy society has build in defences against psychopaths. But like any feedback loop there are external factors that influence the process. I guess you can see where this is going if you look at the nature of this blog. Can you imagine that there is a culture driven by a religion where discrimination is a doctrine. For instance discrimination against woman among others. Woman are seen as second class citizens, their witness account could for instance count only for half of that of a man and they are generally oppressed. If such woman steps out of line she might insult her family or perhaps an entire village. If such society is primitive enough families may feel that their honour is compromised by their daughter or wife for instance. Fortunately despite the theoretical existence of a backward culture that assumes it possible a daughter or wife can bring dishonour over her family by behaving inappropriately and then deserving death there is empathy. Despite having their honour trampled on, empathy will stop those family members from doing horrible things to their daughters or wives. But what about if those backward cultures have Psychopaths among them? That would not be unrealistic since 5% of the population are psychopathic. A daughter or a wife of a Psychopath in such backward culture driven by their religion could then theoretically die a horrible death. Not only that, the perpetrators would also have a moral high ground. It would be easy to see how such society would not flourish. Despite the fact that the majority of empathetic members of such society would like to get on with their lives and love their daughters and wives, there is a critical and very destructive amount of psychopaths among them who do a lot of damage without the checks and balances of, for instance, a healthy Western society.

I always try to explain things for my self. How can you kill your own daughter in the name of honour? How can you fly a plane in a building in the name of religion? Normally when I am puzzled by a complex issue I analyse it and build a hypothesis. If the hypothesis is in conflict with data, then it is discarded. But as long as there is no known data that conflicts with the hypothesis, I work with it as if it is true. In most cases it allows the root cause to be found. The above is my hypothesis to the origin of terrorism and honour killing. You need a culture or a religion that makes it acceptable and you need a psychopath (or even psychopaths to come together). One of the two is not enough and that explains why a violent religion does not make all their members violent. Fortunately, the majority has enough empathy to go against their own religion.

I am optimistic

In 2009 I was debating global warming with a friend an colleague who is a leftist and a warmist. The Copenhagen summit was coming up and my colleague was very smug. At some point I told him how biassed the MSM (main stream media) is in reporting on global warming but that many people have now caught on and are starting to see the lies. To my surprise he did not rebut my claims but said: "It does not matter we have won already." He said this weeks before the climate gate scandal came out that shook the global warming establishments on its foundations. Soon after the Copenhagen summit came up and it was an utter disaster for the warmists. Such high hopes turned out in such a delusion. Only a few years before I remember to have searched the internet in vain to find a website that would give a denialist like my self some ways to defend his oddball viewpoint. Today the whole global warming issue is hardly taken serious by the general public and for every state or UN sponsored propaganda site there is a grassroots site opposing it. Today the global warming establishment is in retreat. They are still putting up a fight but they are only a shadow of them self compared with 5 years ago.

Fast forward and we can see the same thing happening with Islamism (I hope I am right). Not so long ago I had this choking feeling (hey you are an Islamophobe or or you are not) of the western world bing suffocated by an incompatible culture whilst European governments where feeding us a load of crap about multiculturalism. It was hardly possible to find anything on the internet that provides islamophobes like my self with any ammunition it defend against the political correct thought police. Today, websites exposing the islamic lies pop up not left but definitely right and even centre. I am optimistic that Islam in the west is at its peak right now. You see they have a huge problem and that is globalisation. The reason is that Jihad is waged in stages. These stages allow or require muslims to behave different according to their strength in the area they try to conquer. The problem is that due to globalisation, people who live in an area where the first stage of Jihad is called for, have now access to information coming out of regions where stage three of jihad is implemented. This is a huge problem and exactly the reason why front groups like CAIR are constantly trying to shut down everybody talking about Islam. They do not want people exposed to the wrong stage of jihad. One of the most fucked up countries in the west is the UK, to my regret because I have always admired the UK. Unfortunately I have no respect for them at this time. A country that allows their daughters to be groomed raped and prostituted in the way that Pakistani Muslim rape gangs destroy (white and Indian) girls aged from 11 to 15, deserves no respect. But I am optimistic and today I saw on the internet an interview with Gavin Boby by Jamie Glazov that suggests Islam is at its peak in the UK as well. The glass might just be half full.

First post

I have been thinking how I would blog. This is a political blog and though I am, in my humble opinion, far better informed than the average person in the street, I am by no means an expert. So does my opinion matter? I could also just be a post office, forwarding what has already been published by others. A bit like what a modern professional Journalist does nowadays. Only I am not a professional Journalist and as with many professional Journalists, I fail to see what the added value would be. In the end I decided that this is my blog, so it is about my opinion. If people will read it I would be very happy, but I am doing this for me. A bit like the village fool who climbs on a soap box in the village square and starts to talk. Like this village fool, I am exercising my freedom of speech for what it is still worth... for the moment...