A philosophical exploration of default mental settings and the conscious choice toward empathy.
As we go through our day to day life, do we default to our natural setting of thinking that every little inconvenience is only happening to us? Or do we choose to acknowledge that we are in fact not the center of the world. That some of the people around us might be going through a struggle much harder than our own. David Foster Wallace explores this choice in This is Water.
Matthew Freidell