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[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Perpetual horrors. It might be a sign of the times, or just the internet, or both even, but there is a notable increase in constant terrible news. Climate change and death and hunger and epidemic and wars and billionaires and fascism and so forth, it desensitizes people.

Years ago people were deeply disturbed by violence, now I can watch a random russian conscript shoot himself in the mouth after a drone strike destroyed his legs every other day and it’s probably not the worst thing I’ve read or seen on that day even.

Everything seems fucked, it’s hard not to become somewhat apathetic towards it.

[-] Alto@kbin.social 8 points 6 months ago

It's probably a mix, but I'd wager it's primarily a side effect of the existence of the internet. Before you'd hear the bad things in your immediate community, the really bad things from your country/region/whatever, and really only the truly horrible stuff from the world as a whole. Now you can have a constant feed of every bad thing that happens everywhere. As you see more of it, you're bound to get desensitized.

But hey on the otherhand I have unlimited videos of cute puppies and I'd be lying if I said that wasn't a pretty big upside.

[-] UlfKirsten@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

I can’t believe I’m saying this but I really don’t know if unlimited puppy videos were worth it in the end. Damn now I’m sad.

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