Therapy Empathy Reduction

I don't think it would be controversial to suggest that we in the 'western world' are starved of empathy. Cultural issues and division have become the most popular political, social, and profit-making tools. This relies on peoples' lack of ability for empathy. Through the worship of the individual, the West has created a situation where its people are hurting but lack the tools to effectively communicate it with others. Those others also lack the tools to effectively respond. Irony and passive nihilism –turning to hopelessness– have become the coping strategies of the masses. However, if you vocalise this hurt, you near-certainly get this response, "Go to therapy." Therapy has become a default response for the issues we are experiencing from a failing economy, lacking social system, and self-interest from ruling classes.