desensitization in media
how we start perceiving life thru social media
desensitization in media
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
... See morewhen suzanne collins used the hunger games to discuss real world issues and explored how we, as a society, are becoming desensitized to mass death
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balladofsongsx.comThe hunger games and actual problems
but whether parasocial content is desirable or not, it points to a growing crisis on the internet: So much of what we encounter online just doesn’t matter , and even worse, offers no mechanism for us to start caring about it. The average human living today sees more things they don’t care about in one week than a medieval peasant did in their entir... See more
Drew Austin • The Internet's Meaning Crisis
critical thinking skills going down the drain with each chatgpt novel summary request i fear
instagram.comCritical thinking
creating a digital garden to end my doomscrolling
youtu.bePeter Thorpe argued in Why Literature Is Bad for You that the negative effects of reading outweigh the positive: “If we become too involved in the beautiful imitation, we can begin to lose touch with the real thing.”
Kit Wilson • Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis
Our around-the-clock overexposure to global human suffering, our daily feed of what we once considered catastrophic events — political, ecological, cultural — when combined with diminished attention spans, smaller and smaller chunks of content, and baked-in cross-platform imperatives to remain emotionally removed from any given person, place, or ev... See more
Heather Havrilesky • The Rise of Emotional Divestment
Short span attention
how media changes perspective