My sister has a lot of anxiety about whether or not she’s acting like our mom, who was a real piece of shit. I always tell her that the fact that she’s even reflecting on it shows that she’s not. The defining feature of people who lack empathy is that they don’t self reflect. They lack the ability to understand others because they don’t even understand themselves.

They didn’t forget, they enacted a decades-long propaganda campaign to ensure we’ll be too preoccupied with fighting each other to band together.