Compassion as a Corrective Brain-Technology

Compassion means to grow being-for-others as a function of a holistic self-interest. We’re currently a narcissistic species (especially ‘civilization’) which is what happens when primates get advanced technology and surplus generation. Everything has a cost, and ‘evolutionarily’ (in terms of dominant globalizing cultures) the human brain has an operating cost at the expense of the planet’s health and we’re racing towards ecocide evidenced by this latest virus: we’re our own biggest threat and we should bare-facedly acknowledge this. We lack social and ecological intelligence as a species and those of us with social, class, first world, racial and ethnic privilege should invest in multi-disciplinary tertiary education with a philosophical, humanitarian and political interest. There are no shortcuts. The only solution is to see quality life-long education and social justice as counteractive technology to cure our immensely faulty and flawed brains.