Jiang says societies lacking empathy slowly degenerate, extending his water metaphor into a claim that empathy is necessary for social survival.
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Degeneration
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "I don't see how societies can survive. Empathy. And, you know, and I think that if society, societies lack empathy, then they slowly, slowly..."
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"I don't see how societies can survive. Empathy. And, you know, and I think that if society, societies lack empathy, then they slowly, slowly..."
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Jiang begins with a vocabulary problem and turns it into a civilizational one.
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