{"id":3504,"date":"2025-03-10T12:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T19:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicalmakiko.com\/en\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2025-03-11T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:43:55","slug":"empathy-as-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicalmakiko.com\/en\/healing-power-of-music\/3504","title":{"rendered":"Empathy as Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Music is empathetic. It brings us together, synchronizing our pulse, breath, and brain waves. We move to the same rhythm. We sit in silence next to each other, listening to the fading decay of the last note of a song. Music reminds us that what we share is greater than our differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mompou Prelude No. 2 (1927) - A note from the past.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dbAfd7Y5dMc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent podcast interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/elon-musk-empathy-quote\/\">Elon Musk called empathy \u201cthe fundamental weakness<\/a> of\u201d and \u201ca bug in\u201d Western civilization. Empathy, like music and good partnership and citizenship, requires care, attention, and time \u2013 things he seems to be short of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unapologetic display of apathy abounds in the news these days. &nbsp;Hundreds of thousands of federal employments and contracts were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimisticallie.com\/p\/governments-are-people-my-friend\">terminated<\/a> in the name of efficiency, with complete disregard for the workers\u2019 professional dignity, personal circumstances, and essential services they have been providing the beneficiaries. Many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.padilla.senate.gov\/newsroom\/news-coverage\/la-times-federal-prison-officer-alarmed-about-inhumane-handling-of-migrants-2-u-s-senators-want-hearing\/\">detained migrants<\/a>, including asylum seekers, have been sent to federal prisons in violation of their civil rights, exposing them to inadequate care and violence due to lack of staffing resources. Our aid to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> is no longer a response to Russia\u2019s violation of the UN Charter, Ukraine\u2019s national sovereignty, or human sufferings caused by war, but about rare earth and critical minerals in blatantly transactional terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/conversations\/2017\/1\/19\/14266230\/empathy-morality-ethics-psychology-compassion-paul-bloom\">Paul Bloom<\/a>, a professor of psychology at Yale and the author of \u201cAgainst Empathy\u201d (2016) argues that the danger with empathy is that we tend to empathize more with pains and sufferers we feel closer to. According to him, empathy does not scale appropriately to the complexity of our multifaceted global sufferings. He also argues that feeling negative emotions can be paralyzing rather than motivating. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a musician, I argue that empathy is not a tool to address global issues, but an exercise for us to become more humane. It is also a commitment to our interconnectedness. Choosing to recognize others\u2019 joy and pain as our own ensures that we serve, and avoid hurting, each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit,\u201d Then-Senator Barack Obama said in his 2006 commencement speech at Northwestern University in stark contrast to Elon Musk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Empathy is also an exercise in humility. To extend your empathy to someone else is to acknowledge that, given their circumstance, their situation could have been ours. I pity those without this capacity for empathy. It must be lonely to see everyone else only for their utility in their self-centered agenda. It must be boring to be so convinced of their own singular worldview. &nbsp;They remind me of King Midas, who wished for a touch that turned everything into gold, even his food, even his own daughter. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/musicalmakiko.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Makiko-Meditating-at-Valley-of-Fire-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicalmakiko.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Makiko-Meditating-at-Valley-of-Fire-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/musicalmakiko.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Makiko-Meditating-at-Valley-of-Fire-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/musicalmakiko.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Makiko-Meditating-at-Valley-of-Fire-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/musicalmakiko.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Makiko-Meditating-at-Valley-of-Fire-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. 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