The battle of empathic humanity with psychopathic humanity

The above title isn't one I would have come up with, the endocrinologist, author, medical researcher and teacher, professor David Anderson said it in this brief clip talking with John Campbell. It seems humanity is presently at a crossroads from a variety of angles.

But I will repeat something I have said many times in recent blogs, the idea we will improve humanity with genetic modifications is a science fantasy coming out of a lack of understanding of the true cause of health. As but one key example, the cancer epidemic began with the introduction of industrialised food-like substances, and continues accelerating. 

Our great ape cousins have little cancer (quoting Gemini AI):

 "Studies consistently report that cancer, especially epithelial neoplasms like breast, prostate, and lung carcinomas (which are common in humans), are very rare in great apes. While these cancers are responsible for over 20% of human deaths, their incidence in great apes is estimated to be less than 2% or even lower."

Cancer rates in humans were very low before the introduction of industrialized food-like substances. The idea we don't know the exact cause of these food borne diseases is an example of willful ignorance. Yes, if we were breathing dirty air and drinking dirty water this would rival dirty food as a cause, but the fact is for the most part the air we breath and the water we drink is exponentially cleaner than the industrialized fast foods being sold on every street corner.

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution technology began degrading human health, and the answer, say the technologists, will be more technology.

We all like technology for many good reasons. But we could be doing much better at seeing and dealing with the unintended consequences of each technology individually, well before it's too late to do anything about them.

It can be said, as a result, humans are collectively self-destructive. And the battle of empathic humanity with psychopathic humanity may be reaching a critical stage. The psychopaths are loud, devious, and narcissistic. Will the empaths have the inner strength to ward off the psychopaths? Looking back on history to this point it's a difficult question, empaths tend to see the best in people and not recognize the degree of threat in the narcissistic psychopaths

Well, listen to this conversation and see what you think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7-OEGkN008