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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Replying to @kccarrell
Yea, I think that the only time I'm more likely to see it is if I literally can't understand the reporters' language, but they convey actual emotion.
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Replying to @generativist @kccarrell
Most US news outlets are actively trying to emotionally manipulate you (to attract eyeballs and clicks), so it's not surprising that some of us mentally resist via apathy.
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Yea that's what it is for me. I think this particular effect just snuck up on me though. Like, the imagery as vivid as possible but....nada.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1119973613451583488 …
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