1/ I don't see terrorism anymore. I see the violence, blood and bodies, but I don't perceive the tragedy or horror.
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3/ Because of decades of exposure to endless and breathless punditry and their feverish attempts to score ideologically supporting evidence weighted by body counts and viscera, my brain just sees it as background noise now.
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4/ Cognitively, it feels closer to watching a "bull" and a "bear" debate the Dow levels on some finance show than lives literally torn to shreds. That's absolutely awful.
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5/ I'm purposely not tagging this with today's incident because I don't want anyone to think I'm saying it "who cares?" or doesn't matter. But, every time, I feel like group offense and defense obscures this corrosive psychological effect and I want to talk about it more.
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@NGrossman81 is there something I can read about this process. Or even a name for it so I can follow some ideas?Show this thread
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