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Pathological Altruism and White Guilt

By Gerold

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Even the best of intentions often have unintended consequences. Although few people have bad intentions, many of our problems are caused by good intentions gone awry. And, this applies in particular to Westerners.

Note: I use the term ‘Westerner’ for people whose ancestors originated in Western and Northern Europe. And, I use the term non-Westerner for people whose ancestors originated elsewhere. This narrow definition makes it easier to understand the link that connects pathological altruism and Westerner (‘White’) guilt to the Western European Marriage Pattern (WEMP) which I will explain below. First, let’s get some definitions out of the way.

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Amazon Chief Says Employees Lacking Empathy Will Be Instantly Purged

Guest Post by Andy Borowitz

SEATTLE (The Borowitz Report)—Saying that he was “horrified” by a New York Times article recounting callous behavior on the part of Amazon executives, company founder Jeff Bezos warned today that any employees found lacking in empathy would be instantly purged.

In an e-mail to all Amazon employees issued late Sunday evening, Bezos said that the company would begin grading its workers on empathy, and that the ten per cent found to be least empathic would be “immediately culled from the herd.”

To achieve this goal, Amazon said that it would introduce a new internal reporting system called EmpathyTrack, which will enable employees to secretly report on their colleagues’ lack of humanity.

The system will allow Amazon employees to grade their co-workers on a scale from a hundred (nicest) to zero (pure evil), resulting in empathy-based data that will be transmitted directly to Bezos.

Then, through a new program called Next Day Purging, any employee found lacking in empathy will be removed from the company within twenty-four hours of Bezos’s termination order.

“We can’t be the greatest retailer in the world unless we are also the kindest,” Bezos wrote in his e-mail. “So my message to all Amazonians is loud and clear: be kind or taste my wrath. Love, Jeff.”