Abstract Thinking

the lack of empathy is a sign of an absolute inability to think abstractly you know think about a baby a baby cannot relate to other person's perspective because just impossible what I mean how does someone else look at it there's no other way to look at these are the only eyes in the universe right but my body feels and smells and hears taste that's reality so the lack of empathy it's rampant today that itself is symptomatic of an inability to think abstractly if you can think of Spratly you can put yourself in somebody else's shoes and I mean that metaphorically I don't mean you literally take off you put on their shoes metaphorically to be able to see somebody else's perspective and feel what they're feeling is a cognitive ability which is why animals can't do it they can't have empathy so this is lacking this is sorely lacking today the more materialistic society becomes then less and less people can discuss ideas the less and less they're open to new ways of looking at ideas the less and less they're able to be convinced of anything and therefore they can't be taught anything and the less and less they're able to be compassionate towards others and forget we'd even get to the fact that the entire notion of life having meaning meaning itself is an abstraction meaning itself is an idea it's not a thing means not a thing it's an idea if you don't relate the ideas you don't relate the meaning you