Hollow Politics: A Generation Raised Without Empathy
Published: Sep 27, 2025 15:00
Politics reflects culture, and culture reflects childhood. If you want to know why leaders today sound like trolls, why cruelty passes as strategy, why entire movements thrive on mockery rather than vision โ look at how a generation was raised. Their first lessons in intimacy came from porn hubs, their first taste of humor from chans, their first sense of community from feeds that rewarded cruelty over care. Empathy never had a chance to wire in.
The result is leaders who treat people as metrics, nations as dashboards, lives as disposable. It is not simply corruption or greed โ it is conditioning. A culture that raised children on humiliation and desensitization produced adults who rule with the same logic. Cold politics is not a bug. It is a feature of an empathy deficit baked into the generation now taking power.
This is why debates feel like memes, why discourse collapses into trolling, why even crisis response is staged as content. The algorithmic mindset has migrated from the feed to the state. When empathy collapses, governance becomes theater, strategy becomes spectacle, and entire populations become data points rather than human beings.
DeepTruth does not romanticize the past โ cruelty existed long before TikTok. But never before did cruelty scale at algorithmic speed. Never before did generations wire themselves to mistake performance for connection. Until empathy is rebuilt, politics will remain hollow, leaders will remain cold, and the system will keep producing more of the same.
The warning is not abstract: societies without empathy do not stabilize. They fracture. They eat themselves from within.