{"id":1265,"date":"2010-05-17T16:36:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/05\/17\/the-other-invisible-hand\/"},"modified":"2010-05-17T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:36:31","slug":"the-other-invisible-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/05\/17\/the-other-invisible-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"the other invisible hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/integral-options.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/mirror-neurons-deconstructing-promise.html\">mirror neuron<\/a> meme continues to circulate via that dependable circulator of likable sciencey ideas, Jeremy Rifkin:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l7AWnfFRc7g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s much more to his argument than mirror neurons (fortunately).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmpathy is grounded in the acknowledgment of death and the celebration of life in rooting for each other to flourish and be. It\u2019s based on our frailties and our imperfections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmpathy is the invisible hand. Empathy is what allows us to stretch our sensibility with another so that we can cohere in larger social units. To empathize is to civilize; to civilize is to empathize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the invisible hand of the liberal right is the market, and of the conservative right is tradition, is the invisible hand of the left empathic sociality? And is science now on its side?<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RA5dPgAACAAJ&amp;dq=rifkin+empathic&amp;ei=XaDxS_DdCZPQM53LhccP&amp;cd=1\">The Empathic Civilization<\/a> for more. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/about-us\/what-we-do\">RSA<\/a> for more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/events\/vision\">videos<\/a> by the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/events\/vision\/vision-videos\/david-harvey-the-crises-of-capitalism\">David Harvey<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/events\/vision\/vision-videos\/matthieu-ricard\">Matthieu Ricard<\/a>, Barbara Ehrenreich, Slavoj Zizek, Tzvetan Todorov, and others.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/zrks.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/blog-post.html\">Symbiotika<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mirror neuron meme continues to circulate via that dependable circulator of likable sciencey ideas, Jeremy Rifkin: There&#8217;s much more to his argument than mirror neurons (fortunately). \u201cEmpathy is grounded in the acknowledgment of death and the celebration of life in rooting for each other to flourish and be. It\u2019s based on our frailties and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[691847],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-kp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2908,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/03\/15\/observations-politics-media-empathy\/","url_meta":{"origin":1265,"position":0},"title":"Observations: politics &#8211; media &#8211; empathy","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A few observations from the events of the last week or so: (1) Tsunamis happen. 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