America's empathy deficiency

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SAN JOSE, September 11 (UPI) — You too may have seen this one. The President is giving a speech to mark the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and something goes terribly wrong in the CNN sound department. Suddenly we, the viewing audience, are hearing CNN anchor Kyra Phillips in the bathroom. We hear the zip of a garment, the flush of a toilet, and a conversation in which Ms. Phillips dishes some dirt on her sister-in-law.

It wasn't long before this behemoth of a technical blunder was a momentary cultural sensation as video of the mishap bounced around cyberspace. To her great credit, Kyra Phillips went on Letterman to read a self-deprecating top ten list of excuses for what went wrong.

http://www.religionandspirituality.com/view.php?StoryID=20060910-110316-7977r

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1. That's a very nice article

And, unfortunately, very true. I'm hopeful it's one of those things though that's more true in the general than when you drill down to specific people.

I think as a country, we haven't been called on to be emphathetic in too long. What a marvelous opportunity was presented to us after 9-11! And it was totally squandered.

I'd certainly like to see this given more weight in our culture as a valued characteristic.