Hi, everyone. It's Dr. Nagra again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged. Thanks, as always, to all of our followers. New and old, I appreciate your continued interest and support of our podcast. And I know Julie has been working to get our Instagram account

and all those social media stuff laying together. So I think that is on the near horizon. So

I will give you contact information to reach out. I know I got a lot of messages and

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through Buzz Barrow where I do the podcast or the platform, but I can't respond to any of your

email. So I will give you that contact information at the end of this episode. This is a, this is

a different format because this was a topic that people have asked for a while.

And I wanted to really spend some time and gather information in a way to explain this topic.

So it may take a different format. I'm sure I'll diverge and digress into other

areas, but I wanted to be thoughtful and methodical with this. And this episode is the,

this episode is the psychology of evil and hatred um you know bruce springsteen there's there's a

darkness on the edge of town and that's where mystery lies pain lies hope despair, a range in a realm of possibilities, beginnings, and endings.

Evil isn't really something that I would say that's out there.

It's not reserved for dictators, monsters, in history books. It's, in some way it's a potential. In essence, I think,

a latent capacity that exists in all of us, just as the capacity to be good and

empathetic, the capacity for evil and hatred is part of the human condition. To really talk

about evil, I think, is to talk about the collapse of empathy when the moment

when another human being, another human being's pain stops mattering. And to talk about hatred

is really talking about pain that has nowhere else to go. And I've, over the years, I've listened to

stories of trauma, of cruelty, of injustice. And the com denominator, I would say it isn't malice

as much as it is blindness.

Really blindness to the humanity of the other person and blindness to one's own shadow.

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