I’ve written about this before.
And it’s happening again.
We’re living in a very strange time, where events are beamed to our televisions, computers, and phones as they happen.
Real people are out there – in the arena – doing incredible things and experiencing real trauma.
And we watch – in real-time – and critique, scowl, and gossip.
The flash-to-bang is getting shorter and shorter. 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina were the opening acts.
January 6th and the fall of Kabul are the most recent manifestations of this phenomenon.
Things used to happen and then you’d read about it, dispassionately, in a newspaper the morning after. If you were lucky, there was a picture that accompanied the article.
Today it’s all reaction and little reflection.
Emotion and absence of mind.
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