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How constant memeing might be numbing your empathy

Every time something bad happens in the world my first instinct is to make a joke about it and I'm starting to worry I've lost my capacity for genuine grief.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You've trained yourself to process pain through humor so automatically that you can no longer access the full range of human emotional response.

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“Where Are You with Memes and digital humor?”

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