If there is a place for the unmentionables, it is on this island between two vacations, knowing that the confessions will soon be washed away with the rest of the garbage of 2025.
I admit that I have a certain envy of psychopaths. I say well because it refers to a single characteristic of their way of seeing the world: indifference towards the suffering of living beings.
If there was little suffering from others in the world, that would be good. But there are so many things that even the most compassionate soul is not enough to cope with so much pain. Furthermore, much of this pain is unavoidable or has no remedy, leading us to build up frustration with empathy and often anger at helplessness, injustice, and the randomness of bad luck.
And it’s not as if everyone doesn’t already have good reasons to suffer from their own fate. There is already too much competition in human suffering. It’s not like we have any worry left or a desire to be sad. I therefore propose that psychopathy courses be given. Children, especially, would benefit from learning to be less empathetic.
Don’t they learn martial arts? Why not psychopathic arts? They would learn not to worry, to shrug their shoulders, to make better use of their time. At the very least, they would learn to focus their compassion on instances where they can help minimize the suffering of others.
With animals, for example. And the closest family. Sometimes all it takes is a little word, a tear, a moment of companionship and understanding, a gesture of solidarity, a sign of mercy.
Without a course in psychopathy – skillfully separating insensitivity to the suffering of others from the desire to make others suffer – the pity we have for the world will be dispersed, diluted, until it loses all force and utility.
Partial psychopathy would help focus it, making it therapeutic and satisfying. Who knows if this would delay the so-called compassion fatigue, in which our soul gets tired of mourning so much misfortune together for so long?
Or not?
On second thought, it’s better to leave everything as is.
(Transcript from PUBLICO)
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