Ryan Mueller

The reason there is a “war on empathy” is because empathy has been used as a weapon of war. People who deny this don’t want their favorite weapon neutralized.

Why are so many classically educated kids such suckers for Wokeness? Here are a few ideas: 1. They were not truly educated. I'm not sure many classical school teachers actually understand the transcendentals, let alone classical philosophy. (Neither do they know what modern philosophy is up to--no real understanding of the hermeneutic of suspicion for instance, and consequently they're defenseless against historicism and post-modernism. I could go on, but you get the gist of it.) 2. They were in classical education for the wrong reasons. (Meaning, they saw the education as a way to get into an elite college. In other words they were really after success as the world measures it.) 3. The parents of the students increasingly were held in contempt by their kids because the kids end up knowing more than their parents. (I remember being asked someone what I would do if my kids told me I didn't know as much as their teachers. I said, I would mock them. In other words, this was never a dynamic in my home. Something to keep in mind though for parents who have no background in the academy.) 4. Kids simply get seduced by the institutions they desire membership in. (Pretty simple. If a kid wants to make it big on Broadway for example, Christianity will be seen as a liability, even when it is based on solid foundations. Sometimes we launch our kids into a world that is just too tempting for them to resist.)