Thread by @williameijer

Have we found the cause of Suicidal Empathy?

Research shows free, affluent societies maximize guilt, shame, and altruism in women. In the West, evermore power is given to an increasingly self-loathing, selfless demographic. 🧵

This insight comes from a recent systematic review on the Gender Equality Paradox. It summarizes 27 meta-analyses and large-scale studies as well as 54 other studies.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

“Results indicate that those sex differences in negative emotions that are more prevalent or stronger in females [such as guilt and shame] are larger in countries with higher living conditions (p.20)."

The same is true for altruism (p.14).

The main explanation for this phenomenon is likely gene-environment correlation. rGE in 4 steps:

1. Genetic predispositions can be more fully expressed when environmental constraints are removed.

2. Different innate tendencies lead to creating and selecting different environments.

3. These environmental creations and choices then reinforce initial differences.

4. This creates feedback loops that amplify smaller initial differences.

Wokeness largely arises from unmarried, childless young women creating and self-selecting into psychosocial environments that validate their heightened tendencies toward guilt, shame, and altruism, while offering a channel to fulfill their otherwise unmet nurturing needs.

The only thing worse than pain is meaningless pain. Wokism gave meaning to women’s psychological pain. “I feel guilt, sadness, shame, and anxiety because of the racist and patriarchal society I live in.”

In the US (and likely the anglosphere), young liberal women are the most mentally ill demographic, by a large margin. This is both a cause and a symptom of Wokism.

Guilt, shame, and altruism are the psychological foundations of Wokism.

Tomorrow I will share a new, unifying, biopsychosocial model of Wokism.

Based on new insights gained from interactions on this thread, I will have to modify my new biopsychosocial model of Wokism, which was due to come out today. It should now be released next week. Thank you for your input—it helps me get better.