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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2/ I don't mean this in a nihilistic way. It makes me feel like something is broken in me. Like, I'll have an emotional response to some DoDo videos, but incidents of terrorism barely move my affective needle.
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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?4 replies 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
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earthling Retweeted earthling
The paper I just highlighted in the attached thread doesn’t give a name to the numbness but might provide some adjacent context?https://twitter.com/csageland/status/1119601288658837506?s=21 …
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earthling @csageland“One of the most eminent climate scientists in the world, Peter Wadhams, believes an ice-free Arctic will occur one summer in the next few years and that it will likely increase by 50% the warming caused by the CO2 produced by human activity” -@jembendell http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
I *think* so. Like, this general synchronization, overexposure, affective exhaustion process is happening everywhere. The information environment is just constantly in a seizure, and numbness is either a defense or a refractory effect.
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earthling Retweeted Malcolm 🌎cean
Have you seen the Emerge podcast and specifically this recent 2 part on social collapse? This might be more to your point than the deep adaptation paper:https://twitter.com/malcolm_ocean/status/1116967985380335617?s=21 …
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Malcolm 🌎cean @Malcolm_OceanOn which note: anyone reading this thread who hasn't heard the VG+DT interview, it's here, in 2 parts: 1: https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Vinay-Gupta---Waking-Up-in-the-Monster-Factory-pt--1-e3ikvk … 2: https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Vinay-Gupta---Waking-Up-in-the-Monster-Factory-pt--2-e3lvgk … Very intense. I don't recommend listening if you're feeling emotionally unstable or you're heading to work or something.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
earthling Retweeted Vinay Gupta
Whoops, sorry, wrong link. Here’s a more direct one:https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1115775749212995589?s=21 …
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Vinay Gupta @leashlessI'm fascinated by how hard-hitting people found these two podcasts@dthorson and I did recently. We didn't talk about extinction, or pandemic flu, or genocide, or any of that stuff. https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Vinay-Gupta---Waking-Up-in-the-Monster-Factory-pt--1-e3ikvk … https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Vinay-Gupta---Waking-Up-in-the-Monster-Factory-pt--2-e3lvgk … We talked about *money* and homelessness and lies.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like - 1 more reply
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