Mouselemming to ShowerThoughts · 8 hours agoCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up170arrow-down1message-squareCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?Mouselemming to ShowerThoughts · 8 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-squareMouselemmingOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-27 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-up3·5 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-up3·6 hours agoI mean, we’ve seen plenty of authoritarianism and facism before plastic was invented, so that seems like a dubious notion
minus-squareMouselemmingOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 hours agoThat’s why this is in showerthoughts rather than science
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
That’s why this is in showerthoughts rather than science