• HurlingDurling@lemm.ee
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      17 hours ago

      I think there has been an active plan orchestrated by powerful and wealthy individuals to tear us apart (“united we stand and divided we fall” mentally) and part of this plan is killing the empathy in people

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        17 hours ago

        I think it was because we put lead in gasoline personally. I don’t know about orchestrated, I think human greed has existed for a very long time. Empathy is something that requires a high level of intelligence.

        • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
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          10 hours ago

          Lead is probably why right wing media is overtly aggressive.

          I think they would morph into whatever if the populace was decidedly more docile.

          You miss the point if you try to attribute authoritarianism to one single cause. The dominant force will always try to subvert all others in autocracy.

          Christianity, for example, can be anything. You can be a selfless servant of God “spreading the good news” and evangelizing the meek with Christian morality. You can also be a tyrant enacting gods wrath on the soulless heathens.