Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works · 24 hours agoCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works · 24 hours agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
It’s not a crazier idea than most of Kennedy’s. Someone should do a study. Or make one up, nobody checks anymore.
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·22 hours agoWhy empathy specifically? If it causes damage, then it’s probably global
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-222 hours agoI’m “trying” to link it to the recent rise of fascism. And general breakdown of society. You have a point though, a rise in stupidity is part and parcel of the same phenomenon.
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 hours ago recent rise of fascism I’d look for the reasons to back when fascism has risen in the first place in early 20th century
minus-squareCarbonIceDragon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·21 hours agoI mean, we’ve seen plenty of authoritarianism and facism before plastic was invented, so that seems like a dubious notion
Why empathy specifically? If it causes damage, then it’s probably global
I’m “trying” to link it to the recent rise of fascism. And general breakdown of society.
You have a point though, a rise in stupidity is part and parcel of the same phenomenon.
I’d look for the reasons to back when fascism has risen in the first place in early 20th century
I mean, we’ve seen plenty of authoritarianism and facism before plastic was invented, so that seems like a dubious notion