comment: >
  
  People have very little empathy to begin with
context: Nowadays? Lol. It was ever thus. >
  
  Thus it ever was! >
  
  I can't judge whether this is unpopular or not -- mainly because it hasn't been discussed much as far as I've seen. Maybe there is less indulgence of mental illness because more people are recognizing that they might have one, or there is less empathy because social media has made more people unmitigated assholes.
  There's also a lot of people who wear their issues on their sleeve, who crave attention and want some kind of an exception -- and, I think that too much is made of the attention seekers. They aren't really harming anyone, and the people who gripe about the Kardashians all the time are worse than the fans in my book. WHY do you care? Meanwhile, there is a larger group of people who really are having challenges functioning -- perhaps because of more stress from not having a more "human" setting for interaction. We have over a million years of adaptation as a species to a world we can touch and in person communication. There needs to be a lot more study not just of social media -- but in general; what happens to people when they are not interacting physically?
  One basic study of twins where one was sitting and the other standing, showed about a 10 difference in life expectancy for the twin that stood.