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Bloom and David Foster Wallace (DFW) both argue that arrogance is the empathy of self-centered people, and I agree. Bloom talks about how people’s minds are so arrogant that rules do not apply to them, “The town was inundated with so much charity that it added to their burden. Hundreds of volunteers had to be recruited to store the gifts and toys that got sent to the city, which kept arriving despite pleas from Newtown officials for people to stop” (Bloom 2). After the Sandy hook shooting, the town didn’t have enough space for the donations, and asked everyone to stop, yet for some reason they did not. This is because they wanted to satisfy their own ego by showing “empathy” even though the town did not want it. I see this arrogance as much worse than the type that DFW explains through his speech and the type shown in the speech delivered by DFW is the type you learn from, while the type in Blooms essay is one that does absolutely nothing for anyone. DFW writes, “Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. I have learned this the hard way, as I predict you graduates will, too” (3). You see, arrogance is the empathy of stiff minds. If you act like you know everything and no rules apply to you, then that is the ultimate form of arrogance.