PROBLEM

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Our children are the first generation in modern society to fear the future. For the first time, the future is not seen as a place of hope and something better. Too often, even adults can feel powerless in the face of today's challenges. Despite the complexity, there is a way out. The mission of the Empathy-Based Society Initiative is to champion this path.

Normalization of Violence

We live in a violence-based society, in a world that normalizes violence towards people, animals, nature, and the planet and we built our economic system on it.

Violence needs a winner and a loser. For it to exist, it needs an inequality of power.

Power inequality leads to hierarchy.

Hierarchy leads to separation.

Separation leads to alienation.

Alienation leads to selfishness.

Selfishness leads to greed.

Greed leads to non-cooperation.

Non-cooperation leads to deterioration.

All these dynamics dominate today's society, and we are witnessing their devastating consequences on all living beings and the planet. Most of the problems we tackle as separate phenomena (wars, climate crisis, factory farming, world hunger) are simply symptoms of violence.

Symptoms of normalized violence

  • Tolerance of wars and other forms of direct violence

  • Environmental violence

  • Animal violence

  • Social violence

  • Desensitization to violence