{"id":32481,"date":"2018-03-17T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T14:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32481"},"modified":"2018-03-17T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T14:39:49","slug":"how-the-new-york-times-is-making-war-with-iran-more-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32481","title":{"rendered":"How the New York Times is Making War With Iran More Likely"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IT\u2019S NOT EASY<\/u> to say which country America will fight in its next ill-advised war. Iran? Or, assuming President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un don\u2019t hit it off at their summit, North Korea? Maybe even Venezuela<\/a> or Russia?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easier to say what one of the major causes of the war will be: the failure by many Americans \u2014 notably politicians, journalists, think tankers, and other elites \u2014 to employ a specific mental power that we\u2019re all capable of employing.<\/p>\n

That power is called cognitive empathy, and it\u2019s not what you might think. It doesn\u2019t involve feeling people\u2019s pain or even caring about their welfare. Emotional empathy is the kind of empathy that accomplishes those things. Cognitive empathy \u2014 sometimes called perspective taking \u2014 is a matter of seeing someone\u2019s point of view: understanding how they\u2019re processing information, how the world looks to them. Sounds unexceptional, I know \u2014 like the kind of thing you do every day. But there are at least two reasons cognitive empathy deserves more attention than it gets.<\/p>\n

First, because the failure to exercise it lies behind two of the most dangerous kinds of misperceptions in international affairs: misreading a nation\u2019s military moves as offensive when the nation itself considers them defensive, and viewing some national leaders as crazy or fanatical when in fact they\u2019ll respond predictably to incentives if you understand their goals.<\/p>\n

The second reason cognitive empathy deserves more attention is that, however simple it sounds, it can be hard to exercise. Somewhat like emotional empathy, cognitive empathy can shut down or open up depending on your relationship to the person in question \u2014 friend, rival, enemy, kin \u2014 and how you\u2019re feeling about them at the moment.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Sergei Bobylev\/TASS HOW THE NEW YORK TIMES IS MAKING WAR WITH IRAN MORE LIKELY IT\u2019S NOT EASY to say which country America will fight in its next ill-advised war. Iran? Or, assuming President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un don\u2019t hit it off at their summit, North Korea? Maybe even Venezuela or Russia? It\u2019s easier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[441,2864,1426,1921,655,19330,5567,827,862],"class_list":["post-32481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-iran","tag-lies","tag-misinformation","tag-new-york-times","tag-propaganda","tag-robert-wright","tag-the-intercept","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32482,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32481\/revisions\/32482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}