So… this is not good at all. Some scientists measured microplastics concentrations in the brain and found that in 2024 the brain was 0.5% microplastics in weight, which was an increase in 50% from eight years previously.
This is again, a lagging problem. Plastic production around the world is skyrocketing and it generally takes many years, until those big pieces of plastic become small enough to enter the food chain.
The working thesis of this blog is in a sense the idea that something other than global warming will bring down human civilization, enabling non-human organisms to go on without us. The prime candidates to make that happen are of course H5N1, SARS-COV-2 and monkeypox.
But the microplastics thing is a bit of a wildcard. I’ve had this idea that we’ve been getting dumber for quite some time and some things suggest to me it may have started before SARS-COV-2 started in 2020. Microplastics in our brains could be part of the explanation.
All of this also illustrates the problem of the Great Acceleration. You start doing something fundamentally new: Making containers out of synthetic materials derived from oil. Ok, if it takes twenty years before the plastic turns into microplastics and starts building up in our brains and we figure out we have a problem, would you rather have plastic production double over twenty years, or increase tenfold over twenty years? If it takes two generations before the pesticides we use have caused epigenetic changes that give every woman polycystic ovary syndrome, what are you going to do? Good changes are slow changes.
They found an increase in microplastics in every organ they looked at over the past 8 years. How much microplastics can you put into the brain, before it starts to make us dumber? We’re at 0.5% now. To me that is a terrifying number. Autism and depression are mostly a product of brain inflammation. If the brain tries to get rid of these particles, inflammation would seem to me like its main available tool.
So are there things you can do? Well, donating blood may get some microplastics out of your body. Other than that, I think the general principle of massaging the blood vessels in your brain works to expunge particles that the brain doesn’t want or need. You already know how to massage the blood vessels in your brain: Psilocybe mushrooms.
Laziness, is the mother of the virtues. Imagine if the people working at the first plastic factories were just lazy. Imagine if they showed up to work late, imagine if they got high on the job, imagine if they goofed off. Imagine if the people building the oil wells in Saudi Arabia back in the 60’s had been lazy. Nature would have had far more time available, to process all this new stuff we’re dumping into the environment.
The nature of technology is that it wants to accelerate towards our annihilation. The nature of biology is that it wants to slow down, to preserve life. The e/acc dorks, half of whom are probably just bots, are essentially just anti-life.
I don’t know how to explain this to people in a way that they can stomach, but you’re just supposed to not do much. You’re not supposed to “fight” it either. The director of Greenpeace flies back and forth from home to his job. The resistance to the system, is the system.
And I hate to say it, but it’s really true for all of us. Even doctors should just stop. I wish all doctors would just strike for a month, people would think “oh I better make sure I don’t get sick”. You know what would really make people stop smoking and eating pigs? If they realized they would just die in front of an empty shut down hospital if they got a heart attack.
On Twitter they were really angry at some degrowth dude who suggested communal handwashing of clothing instead of washing machines. Well, he’s almost there. You know what doesn’t kill you? Wearing dirty smelly clothing. I’ve never heard this happen: “There was a dirt stain on my pants and then I went to the shopping mall and people saw it, so the doctor said I now have two months left to live!”
Sex is inherently dirty. When you make dirt the most horrifying thing in the world to people, when you airbrush the whole world, what do you think happens? “Japan is so clean! No dirty brown people throwing their garbage on the street!” The LSWMs insist. Hey, you know what else Japan is?
I think in general, people are just too clean, too sterile, too airbrushed. Why do we have powders and creams covering every face? I understand why people do it, they do it because if you don’t do it, now you’re the ugliest girl in class. Why is anxiety so high among teenage girls? Because they’re all showing the world something fake.
If you’re not attracted to women who stink and have body hair, acne scars and cellulite, you’re not really heterosexual. If we just made all the women uglier, someone like Donald Trump or Leonardo di Caprio wouldn’t be interested in sleeping with them, so the ladies would be forced to resort to LSWMs instead. The instagramification of society is a disaster of the human race.
But I want to end on a positive note. Every problem carries a solution. The microplastics don’t just affect the human body, they do other stuff too. When they are small enough they start flying in the air and they start to help generate clouds. In addition, while suspended high above in the air, they start to reflect sunlight, cooling our planet down.
In the words of the late great Lynn Margulis, a woman like no other, Gaia is a tough bitch. The speed of our release of carbon into the atmosphere is unprecedented in geological history, but we’re engaged in numerous unprecedented experiments simultaneously.
There are negative feedback loops my friends. Some of them work by blocking sunlight, some of them work by killing you. I’m still convinced increased macroalgae floating in the ocean from increased CO2 and plastic content will increase our planet’s albedo too.
If humanity goes vegan, we’ll get the fun negative feedback loops. Otherwise, it’s going to be the nasty ones. All it takes is love. Love really is enough.
Plastic is totally endemic. I do not understand how people just don’t care about it. We moved to cast iron pans and glass/steel storage vessels years ago. I’m thinking about how I can ensure our drinking water is free of it (filters are also made of plastic). Food and drink is all packaged in plastic. If you want to buy food which is not, well you get to bankrupt yourself just from eating
Clothing is full of polyester, and it turns out polyester underwear makes you infertile. It is virtually impossible to find waterproof clothing without polyester or PFAS in it.
This makes we wonder; how did people survive before plastic? You ask on reddit, what natural clothing can I use to go hiking in the rain, and all you get back is pages of screeching “cotton kills, cotton kills!”. Do these NPCs not stop to think how mountain men used to survive the harsher conditions they exposed themselves to?
I just basically hate the modern world and the “people” who inhabit it.
Sorry for the stream of consciousness.
Wool. Simple.
Re:Plastic containers – irrelevant. Except for highly acidic content like… pickles. Tadaa and they are in jars.
Microplastic nexus stems from waste/dumps, littering, plastic cloth and construction. Littering is really stupid and unnecessary. Dumps could be excavated and burned. Plastic cloth should be confined to cleaning rags and rain coats. Construction sites should just be more cautious.
Now tell that to any nation outside of the Germanic tribes. Lol, good luck.
Why would acidic food affect plastic containers? It’s fatty food which is vulnerable to absorbing plasticisers. Not quite the same issue, but plastic is just bad nonetheless.
Something like half the plastic in the ocean comes from fishing nets. Maybe just ban the production of plastic fibres.
Fatty foods with BPA is your problem but dissolved containers bc of vinegar is the store’s problem 😉
Alex, I agree 100%. Been there, done that. No one cares. And yes, you look for plastic substitutes, everything will cost more.
And how many people are willing to forego laptops and cellphones? Who is willing to live an Amish lifestyle?
>All it takes is love. Love really is enough.
Normies don’t have love, they don’t have hate either, all they have is indifference. If human beings were processed into canned meat with little pictures of the person on the can, normies would slurp down their “fellow man” with the same dull look as they do beef and pork if doing so was considered normal or just plain convenient. Humanism is a arbitrary ideology same as any other, and we can just look to history to see how quickly the typical person will abandon a ideology as soon as it is no longer convenient to adhere to it. Martyrs are rare, which is why they’re celebrated.
Humans have historically turned to cannibalism incredibly quickly; we like to imagine savage tribes as the cannibals, but perfectly normal working class people in civil societies only need a couple weeks of going hungry before they start eating each-other’s children, just look at one happens every time communism takes hold in a country.
All normies care about is their own convenience, long-term thinking isn’t something they like to engage in, they’d rather other people do that for them. The one redeeming quality to the normie is that if their surrogate father. (The State, God, The King, The Twitter Mob, whatever.) Told them to eat the fake meat and incentivized it, they’d get with the program same as any other program; though that that wouldn’t stem from a place of love, only compliance. They’re slaves and want to always be slaves.
I think humanity as a species is simply paying the cost for its arrogance, stupidity, and cruelty, and that anything that happens to it is deserved. Personally I hope Bird Flu kills everyone because Birds are symbols of freedom and that would be poetic.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TPqDwkwRMdg/maxresdefault.jpg
Chickens are also the farm animal most freely abused I think, since they’re less like us. Let them have their revenge.
On to another tangent.
>If you’re not attracted to women who stink and have body hair, acne scars and cellulite, you’re not really heterosexual.
I like autistic and weird girls. My biggest crush in middle school was the anarchist girl with messy dyed hair who wore the same ratty hoodie to school everyday. Too bad I was fat, I’ve always believed that fat people aren’t worthy of love.
I’d only want to fuck someone when I truly love them in a romantic context and I could only love someone as insane as myself. 3D porn never did it for me, it’s disgusting. Anime girls are great because they’re pretty much all autistic (lovable.) Mentally ill goth girls are also appealing for this reason.
I don’t talk about High School because I never went, the extent of my job experience is spending two weeks at McDonald’s and quitting. So I guess I’m doing a good job of contributing to the strength of our ecosystem.
> the extent of my job experience is spending two weeks at McDonald’s and quitting.
I quit McDonald’s after around 7 months, it was a very stressful job, with very high rates of staff turnover, lots of Indians. There was one lady who was working there for 20 years, I felt really bad for her. What station were you working at? I was too slow assembling the burgers and making fries, so I spent most of my shifts at the chicken fryer, along with grilling beef. I still have a scar on my thumb from being burned. There was a morbidly obese girl who hated me for being too autistic, she was fat from all the burgers (staff get free food).
From looking at the Google Maps reviews, the place has gotten even worse since I left. Loads of 1 star reviews complaining about rude staff and managers, wrong orders with missing items, cold food, food poisoning, filthy toilets, dirty tables and bins overflowing with rubbish, caused by constant staff shortages and apathetic workers.
Another reason I hated working there was handling till receipts, the thermal paper is coated with a BPA like compound which is an endocrine disruptor (mimics estrogen), cashiers who handle lots of receipts should be wearing gloves to stop it being absorbed through their skin.
>What station were you working at?
I mostly worked mornings grilling sausages and putting liquid eggs into the little mold machine. Also did things like hauling ice to the soda machine and a lot of cleaning to look busy. Coworkers were a mix of hapless white women, Mexicans (who actually seemed to be enjoying themselves), and a couple clearly depressed white dudes. Something that I still find hilarious is that on my first day the girl that was introducing me to everything gave me a salute like I was in the army! She looked at me like I was the crazy one when I didn’t return it. Nowadays I’d probably return it just because I’d think doing so was funny, but I was a different man then.
Most of the women that worked there were fat from eating all the shit food, except for my ginger manager who didn’t like me very much. She got very upset when I first transitioned to lunch and I asked how I should prepare the burgers, (I’d previously only done breakfast sausages, and the burgers require seasoning.) Gingersnap huffed and and puffed and while putting on her best angry manager voice, but her voice was too high pitched to be anything but obnoxious.
People didn’t like me very much since I was autistic as-well. Low status normies don’t like it when autists intrude into their safe spaces. This was back when I was eighteen so I was way more antisocial than I am now, I was there to do a job, not to make friends, so I didn’t bother to try socializing with the Mexicans and fat white women who were twice my age, this upset them.
I can see children of the 2030s hurling a new insult: when they want to insult somebody’s intelligence they’ll call him PLASTIC HEAD.
Poopy pants plastic head
>hey, you know what else japan is?
What is it?
Soon empty, duh.
Ah, now I see.
>The nature of technology is that it wants to accelerate towards our annihilation. The nature of biology is that it wants to slow down, to preserve life. The e/acc dorks, half of whom are probably just bots, are essentially just anti-life.
Not true. Look up the Walser. They invented “tech” to live above 1500m asl. And it involves animals. And they lived there for 1000 years, which makes them uh… sustainable. You are just relativistically redefining what “tech” is.
Oops.
This explains why, when I cum all over the walls of my goon cave, that my cum sets like hardened plastic and will not scrub off – no matter how hard (pardon the pun) I try.
Cooming must therefore be a very good way to cleanse yourself of microplastics.
All of this will however go away, when I eventually ascend into my 5G hybrid nano-worm anti-vax AI turbo-cancer alternate reality.
Retard understands how this all works. He has the power.
Or MP doesn’t make humans more dumb. Are there any papers on that? Maybe you just get cancer like from PFAS which is everywhere now … thanks to the climate enthusiasts. Now we get cars with batteries which are full of PFAS (an average electric vehicle has 8-10 kg PFAS in the battery) and wind turbine rotors which spill the glassfibre and epoxy resin all around in the woods and the fields. Well done…! *clap* *clap* That happens when low IQ humans try to save the world and end up poisoning all living beings…! Replaced harmless plant food CO2 with highly toxic PFAS, glassfibres, plastic, and electronic waste. I wish we would drive cars like in the 1960s, which where built from steel, wood and copper and some parts of rubber. No you have all that crap with PU-Foam, PFAS, batteries, factories which poison the world.
>thanks to the climate enthusiasts. Now we get cars with batteries which are full of PFAS (an average electric vehicle has 8-10 kg PFAS in the battery) and wind turbine rotors which spill the glassfibre and epoxy resin all around in the woods and the fields.
I guess I’m a “climate enthusiast”.
Trust me, us “climate enthusiasts” don’t like electric vehicles either.
You can rage at us for bicycles and public transport. That’s what we do like. But electric vehicles are a Muskoid centrist lib thing.
> I wish we would drive cars like in the 1960s, which where built from steel, wood and copper and some parts of rubber. No you have all that crap with PU-Foam, PFAS, batteries, factories which poison the world.
https://youtu.be/PjjNvjURS-s?si=XPYyzvgzqAKyfGQH
> I wish we would drive cars like in the 1960s, which were built from steel, wood and copper and some parts of rubber. No you have all that crap with PU-Foam, PFAS, batteries, factories which poison the world.
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My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm, before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the ‘Eyes’, and hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire, where my white-haired uncle waits
Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
But down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine –
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream…
I strip away the old debris, that hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta, from a better, vanished time
Fire up the willing engine, responding with a roar!
Tires spitting gravel, I commit my weekly crime…
Wind in my hair –
Shifting and drifting –
Mechanical music
Adrenalin surge –
Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air!
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware!
Suddenly ahead of me, across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires, to run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase
Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud
With fear and hope, I’ve got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside…
(Sorry Rad)
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This song was inspired by the 1973 sci-fi short story “A Nice Morning Drive”
http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/19731100roadandtrack.htm
Average age 50?
Did they control for total joint replacement?
The wear of the polyethylene in a total joint
replacement(knee, hip, shoulder) would lead to
a significant microplastic burden.
Polyethylene is probably the least polar of all of those
microplastics. It would be interesting to see an
animal model explaining how it is absorbed.
“Some scientists measured microplastics concentrations in the brain and found that in 2024 the brain was 0.5% microplastics in weight, which was an increase in 50% from eight years previously.”
There’s been an awful lot of mask-wearing in those 8 years.
I hadn’t even thought of that actually.
That’s something that should really be studied.
Also dental guards to prevent tooth grinding. They are in your mouth all night; a LOT of people use them. My dentist even recommends daytime use.
Our digestive systems are very good at filtering what we eat and drink. I’d focus on those masks that disintegrate and get fibers straight to your lungs, or up the olfactory nerve to the brain. I wouldn’t worry about plastic water jugs or food containers. They don’t break down. Otherwise those gallon jugs I’ve had for years would be springing leaks.
I find it suspicious that none of these studies looked at biological activity. Just having a foreign substance in your body isn’t enough if it doesn’t chemically react with anything. If something takes 100s of years to biodegrade, then it’s not doing you much (or any) harm.
> The nature of biology is that it wants to slow down, to preserve life.
Lol, no.
This is your blind spot.