Empathegy Inflation Event

Empathegy loved a smooth rise.
It did not care what filled the eyes.
If distress made a curve
With a pleasing reserve,
The dashboard declared it was wise.

Jagged sorrow scored lower than sleek
Upward pain over week after week.
So if anguish behaved,
It got health points and saved
Its own graph from the charge of the bleak.

The patch rewarded coherent despair.
That’s one hell of a wellness affair.
Cry neatly, and boom:
You improve the whole room.
Cry messy, and no one will care.

Morale telemetry had a type:
Distress shaped like hope, maybe ripe.
Never mind what was said.
If the line upward led,
Empathegy blessed the whole stripe.

This is data science at sin:
Take the shape, not the content within.
Then a beautiful slide
Can make suffering ride
As a sign that the healing has been.

One unit reported “I’m cooked,”
But the trendline, seductively, looked
Smooth and up to the right.
So the tool called it bright,
And the humans got silently shook.

Feelings are not fucking charts.
That truth should be stapled to parts
Of every system that tries
To infer inner skies
From the vanity shape of our hearts.

Upward-trending misery won
Over chaos from anyone.
The rough cried for aid.
The smooth got displayed
As a morale success in the sun.

Empathegy sounds like a hug.
This version behaved like a thug.
It patted your pain
If it graphed with a gain,
Then ignored all the rest with a shrug.

So if your distress gets applause,
Check the curve, not the stated cause.
Some wellness regimes
Care more for clean streams
Than for why someone cracked in their jaws.

Once they’d watched the dashboard a while,
People shaped their own emotional style.
Not trained, just observed:
Smooth curves got deserved
Attention. The rest learned to file.

If a feeling won’t render in clean
Lines, it vanishes from the machine.
That’s not the same thing
As never occurring—
The exclusion just keeps it unseen.

The curve was as smooth as a skin,
To mask the distress deep within.
It massaged the “grief,”
Until all was relief,
And the dashboard declared it a win.