"Air Force One was on the ground. Everything stopped. No one was taking off until the president finished doing his business. I ended up waiting 20 minutes for a bar seat at a restaurant named after a sports league, all to order a meal that ended up upsetting my stomach."
"Human empathy has a hard limit. It rarely extends beyond what we can actually see. At the most fundamental level, we are built to care for what is proximate."
"Trump and the movement around him understand this very human limitation well enough to exploit it. They tell us to distrust the press that extends our vision, distrust the institutions that ask us to consider strangers, and distrust empathy itself as weakness."
The Las Vegas airport was crowded and chaotic due to Air Force One's arrival, causing delays for travelers. Many passengers were distracted, checking their phones and waiting for updates. The situation illustrated a broader theme of human empathy being limited to what is immediately visible. The political landscape, particularly under Trump, has capitalized on this limitation, promoting distrust in broader societal connections and empathy for those outside one's immediate experience. This dynamic challenges the public to engage with complex moral issues.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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