RadixJournal - The Banality of Empathy

00:00:00.000 so he went to Caltech and now it was affirmative affirmative action involved in that admissions

00:00:07.640 process probably no doubt in fact however uh you still have to go through the motions you still

00:00:17.360 have to do it one one of the problems of affirmative action is that they will sort of give

00:00:23.120 you know an african-american student this bite at the apple and they've got this amazing chance 0.74

00:00:29.460 and they blow it and so it's sort of worse for everyone in a way but 1.00

00:00:36.020 mr allen he has a degree from caltech so he should be um applauded to some degree uh he's

00:00:45.480 able to sort of do the work now maybe i am being willfully naive here and the grade inflation and

00:00:53.280 the ability to sort of skate by uh is worse than i would imagine but uh at the very least he's sort

00:01:03.180 of a nerdy type he also created a video game um you tweeted about this uh it seems i was about to

00:01:12.180 show this oh yeah this is a look into the the mind of this man this is this does us so much more than

00:01:20.360 a manifesto so hi i'm a proton with a smiley face and you have this little cute music now the

00:01:30.960 electron is bouncing around an imaginary sphere now the electron is the proton is receiving

00:01:38.460 radioactive energy apparently and now he has to redirect it toward the electron to try to

00:01:45.800 to avoid a collapse that is the game and it's called boredom boredom uh b-o-h-r bore the the

00:01:56.540 quantum physicist the physicist of atoms boredom you do this when you're bored you feel boredom

00:02:04.160 you play some game you learn about physics you learn about not to be a bigot because you get

00:02:10.240 educated i think this guy was in the total institutional mood of science training science

00:02:17.160 education he ended up being hired as a teacher of physics so this guy has been surfing on

00:02:24.360 basically yeah education will free you if you learn more about the atoms you're going to know

00:02:30.620 more you're going to be a better citizen this is the kind of memes that are absolutely endemic

00:02:36.620 to leftism and to leftist corporate culture very millennial even is he technically a zoomer if he's

00:02:43.720 31 i don't know i think he is spiritually millennial yeah um say again i don't know about 0.98

00:02:51.400 the generations and where they end and stuff he's a millennial and he's a millennial he fucking loves

00:02:57.280 science he yes like like what are the most successful video games like obviously i'm sure 0.97

00:03:05.200 uh what is it what is the one called where you get to like put a dead hooker in a trunk and

00:03:10.640 and like grand theft audio yes okay um that's the most successful i think madden where you get to

00:03:21.260 be a player so in some ways like the or or cod like call of duty you you get to like refight the

00:03:28.420 civil war but the south wins this time or or whatever so basically video games that are the

00:03:34.320 most uh popular and influential are this like deep male fantasy or the first person shooter

00:03:41.460 you're blowing the heads off zombies or whatever it's this like a fantasy of being athletic um

00:03:48.020 for what it's worth mlb the show 26 is actually very fun i did a home run do derby as babe ruth

00:03:56.720 it's kind of awesome but whatever i got i've also kind of forgotten about it now i'm not a big video

00:04:02.960 gamer but anyway the video games that are most successful are sort of like um deep male childish

00:04:12.500 fantasies of warfare glory power violence sex and so on it just is what it is you know uh but

00:04:23.000 what does he do it's like oh i can educate you about the atom and then he's playing a game that

00:04:29.420 looks like pong like when was pong developed in 1969 or something i mean like yeah this like

00:04:36.500 retroactive technology you're just like why didn't you reinvent the wheel i mean he almost did

00:04:43.560 reinvent the wheel but but like it's like this is what i call a doorstop has anyone ever thought of

00:04:51.180 this before me like oh um he's doing this like the technology is not interesting in the slightest

00:04:57.740 bit but it has this millennial coded i fucking love science quality to it that makes it kind of

00:05:05.200 like brilliant it's like oh this is great the high schoolers need to do this they'll learn about

00:05:09.580 science this way it's just this sort of like like toxic positivity to him that is just the worst

00:05:21.320 thing ever extremely wise words and isn't it fascinating and ironic that this guy has no

00:05:30.220 shooting violence in his game so this guy is out there creating a game that's supposed to be

00:05:36.020 pacific and on the other hand the guy who plays call of duty i don't expect i don't expect him

00:05:43.880 to go try to shoot trump no because he's being satisfied in his fantasy of domination and violence

00:05:50.620 in his virtual world whereas these guys they are containing it and it accumulates and for him it 0.96

00:05:58.060 accumulates it appears to be a plan that he's had probably for four or five years to go kill trump

00:06:03.980 because he says that was just my first opportunity well he had no outings for any of his desire for

00:06:11.860 being a warrior in the virtual world and he took it only in the real world i i want to expound on

00:06:19.900 this a little bit because i i think what you said is very interesting to me so so much of the video

00:06:26.280 game is a fantasy and you can also say it's a pacifying measure by the deep state to keep

00:06:35.240 people from killing people so let me let me explain i can remember in the 90s where you know

00:06:42.280 tipper gore was on her high horse talking about uh rap videos and they were putting labels on music

00:06:49.000 and so on and this notion of video games creating killers was in the news and talked about and

00:06:56.140 debated and so on and one argument against it is that they would just do social science

00:07:02.180 quantitative research and say look there's no real connection and so on I think a deeper

00:07:07.680 analysis of this would engage in psychology and actually I would say that you're not a killer

00:07:16.120 precisely because you play video games you're not you're not a rapist precisely because you're 0.96

00:07:24.180 addicted to porn so it's the opposite porn is not inspiring rape porn is if anything preventing rape 0.98

00:07:33.440 because you're gooning and deadening yourself and you're living out the fantasy now i say this 0.98

00:07:39.980 um i i think having a fantasy life is important obviously it shows that you have an imagination

00:07:46.620 and i don't really you know i don't know video games sort of rub me the wrong way a little bit

00:07:53.000 in general but you know i don't if there's a young 14 year old boy and he wants to fantasize

00:07:59.560 about refighting world war ii or blowing zombies heads off i think it probably is an expression of

00:08:05.560 something good he has a bit of an adventurous spirit and uh etc i i don't think it means that

00:08:11.620 like oh he's a killer he's a killer he wants to kill people um and so like in in some ways it's

00:08:18.960 video games or in porn are neutralization strategies much more than they are inspiring 0.94

00:08:25.980 things much more than their aphrodisiacs say and i think that has to be understood but again

00:08:31.700 what your fantasy is says a lot about you it gives us a glimpse into the inner life

00:08:38.280 so what is his fantasy his fantasy is about like being a math teacher or something his fantasy is

00:08:45.340 about being a good boy a helper and yet the reality is that despite his his failure the 0.98

00:08:53.540 reality is that he's obviously a dangerous, violent psychopath. Absolutely. And I often say 0.98

00:09:03.240 that the leftists, they suffer from an empathy that is pathological. And look at this. His atoms

00:09:10.480 had feelings. Some of the atoms are peaceful, busy, or stressful. Now, this is the psychologizing

00:09:18.380 of nature. And it shows in exactly this kind of personality that wants to apologize all the time

00:09:24.900 because they're constantly anxious about, I don't want to hurt other people. I don't want to make

00:09:29.720 other people stressful. I wouldn't want my existence to put you at stress. And this

00:09:36.620 pathological empathy leads them to believe, well, if there is Trump that is causing so much stress

00:09:44.400 among america if he's causing this anxiety if he's victimizing young girls then i need to

00:09:51.360 take action and that's more empathic than doing nothing yes do you think that this was going on

00:09:59.360 with um uh tyler robinson and and lance twigs and so on it was a sort of

00:10:06.560 someone needs to someone needs to shut up that just evil person who's saying bad things about

00:10:15.940 my girlfriend you know and and her community like that this exactly 0.98

RadixJournal - April 29, 2026

The Banality of Empathy

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