This article inspired by the author's reading of Gary Olson's new book, Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain, expresses the core values and political outlook of this blog better than any other article I have posted in the three plus years I've been maintaining my blog.
Read it and you will inevitably be led to the profound conclusion contained in his last sentence:
Our task as “dangerous Samaritans” and revolutionaries is to more properly align our institutional and ideological order with our underlying human and caring nature. Given the currently “ecocidal” level of capitalism’s threat to a livable environment, that task would now appear to be nothing less than a life or death matter for the species.