People don't become inured to what they are shown

Susan Sontag
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People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration. ✨ Susan Sontag (2013). Regarding the Pain of Others, p.102, Macmillan
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