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Bob Brown

Empathy is listening to understand, not listening to reply. And a culture of empathy has no (strident?) agenda except to listen and understand.

Pablo

A culture of empathy to mean means a culture where people are more willing to engage in communication and really listen to one another and really try to understand one another.

Indi

"We are for what's happening with all the volunteering and relief work by ordinary citizens, pitching in to help those affected. A guy drove a truckload of hay over from Nevada, knowing the ranchers lost their pastures and would need feed for their steers, for example.

I know this kind of thing also happened after the hurricanes. Community--people who know or feel a connection to people because of location, the kind of work they do, the field they're in, etc ... and it crosses political lines, I'm sure. (assumption) It's amazing to see and feel this first hand.

I wish we had this sense of togetherness, purposefulness at a national level. It seems to come when there is a goal, even if that goal is simply "recovery/relief."

Often, the national goal is competitive with other nations (moonshot), or protective of business interests or natural resources (ore), or in response to conflict (WWII) ... seems like the only non-aggressive scenario at the national level is competition to achievement. Interesting. I have no further depth to my thoughts."