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 -
Replying to @generativist @NGrossman81
There’s a good edited book, Collateral Damage (Kimmel & Stout) on psych impacts of war on terror. Plus good studies on desensitization to violence in conflict zones. Pretty bleak stuff.
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Thanks, Christina. I'm going to grab it now.
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Replying to @generativist @NGrossman81
One other (also bleak) related topic is the idea of vicarious trauma, and the long term impacts of viewing/hearing other people’s traumatic experiences.
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