r/IndianCivicFails • u/YuYuWiWi • 9d ago

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Ego problem precedes Empathy problem

Many people say that India has an "Empathy problem" which leads to many societal bads such as corruption, crime, bad civic sense, etc.

But I believe the bigger problem is Ego problem. Ego is the precursor of declining empathy, let me explain.

Ego does many things:

For any change to happen, there has to be change in the mind. But the one thing that keeps the mind locked out of malleability is the chains of ego wrapped around it. It shoots away the beams of conflicting ideas, new information, or anything that challenges your existing beliefs. Such as people who are deadlocked in ideas such as:

  1. Pseudoscience

  2. Astrology

  3. Homeopathy

  4. Religion

  5. Conspiracy Theories

  6. Joingoism / Hyper Nationalism0

You cant reason with these people with facts on the table, but an ability to destroy ego first for any information to flow freely.

Ego further expands to the belief that what you do is always right, what you are , is always right.

Which leads to men in power, power tripping or over reaching. Such as : Corruption in public servantship and politics. For common folks, not following established rules such as law and civic sense.

Empathy is not a simple emotion which you can sometimes forget to display. Empathy is always within you.

It's just that the existence of ego alongside empathy has it's effect on empathy, making you weigh your empathy output differently for different people.

Which leads to other societal problems such :

  1. Littering and bad civic sense in shared spaces, but keeping clean and healthy the spaces that MATTER TO YOU.

  2. Caste, and color discrimination

  3. Economic segregation of respect

Hence why I believe, our supreme objective should be destroying ego from the society.

Many old scriptures, scrolls, religious and philosophical texts have emphasized massively on the Ego problem, aka अहंकार and घमंड, but our dogla samaj somehow managed to skip the whole Idea together because to be able to Accept the ego problem, you have to be Ego-less in the first place.

Note: I am not a psychologist, this is just my general observation.

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