Gal Beckerman, and many others needs to walk away from Twitter and become more discriminating in their participation in social media platforms.
Personally I don't expect anyone to feel anything about my personal anguish over things I neither control nor am directly suffering. Don't they have enough anguish of their own without having mine…
Gal Beckerman, and many others needs to walk away from Twitter and become more discriminating in their participation in social media platforms.
Personally I don't expect anyone to feel anything about my personal anguish over things I neither control nor am directly suffering. Don't they have enough anguish of their own without having mine inflicted upon them, too? I have family and friends to share with. I don't need randos on the internet to agree or disagree with me and make me sad. Even in this I can agree to disagree without taking it personally. Humans, even the best of them, are frequently disappointing, wrong, ignorant or even bad actors but how I feel about them is none of their (or anyone else's) business.
So much of the television coverage has bordered on atrocity porn. I have read accounts from the AP about many of the atrocities and was appalled in what I read... the descriptions were accurate and I felt like I understood what was happening to the people attacked. My imagination works perfectly fine so I can picture what I read. But I did not need to have shot after shot , in video after video, of sobbing traumatized people to understand that there are people suffering. That no one deserves to suffer like that. The only thing I can compare it to is gawkers standing around watching dead bodies strewn around a car wreck. Psychic voyeurism. And then there is the proverbial reporter talking to the woman whose children were just swept away in a flood and then asks: "How are you feeling about the loss of your kids?" REALLY?
Be prudent in media consumption. Avoid promiscuous engagement with social media. You will feel better and be just as well informed.
Gal Beckerman, and many others needs to walk away from Twitter and become more discriminating in their participation in social media platforms.
Personally I don't expect anyone to feel anything about my personal anguish over things I neither control nor am directly suffering. Don't they have enough anguish of their own without having mine inflicted upon them, too? I have family and friends to share with. I don't need randos on the internet to agree or disagree with me and make me sad. Even in this I can agree to disagree without taking it personally. Humans, even the best of them, are frequently disappointing, wrong, ignorant or even bad actors but how I feel about them is none of their (or anyone else's) business.
So much of the television coverage has bordered on atrocity porn. I have read accounts from the AP about many of the atrocities and was appalled in what I read... the descriptions were accurate and I felt like I understood what was happening to the people attacked. My imagination works perfectly fine so I can picture what I read. But I did not need to have shot after shot , in video after video, of sobbing traumatized people to understand that there are people suffering. That no one deserves to suffer like that. The only thing I can compare it to is gawkers standing around watching dead bodies strewn around a car wreck. Psychic voyeurism. And then there is the proverbial reporter talking to the woman whose children were just swept away in a flood and then asks: "How are you feeling about the loss of your kids?" REALLY?
Be prudent in media consumption. Avoid promiscuous engagement with social media. You will feel better and be just as well informed.
“bordered on atrocity porn” “ Psychic voyeurism”
So perfectly put.