What Are You Doing Right Now? (191 Viewers)

[swag]

Speaking from experience?

My sphincter is based on the copper wires of post-WWII American technology. :frown:

 

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[ZoSo]

mine is carbon nanotubes

 

[Nicholas]

Just booked my tickets for the City-Juve game.

 

[Cheesio]

How much ???

 

[Nicholas]

About 45 euro's.

 

[ZoSo]

tuz

 

[Red]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/04/images-aylan-kurdi-syria

Always curious how people are indifferent to a headline about X many kids dying, but react to a picture of one dead kid.

 

[swag]

Yup. It's completely irrational, but that's the point.

 

[Red]

Weaklings.

I could show them how to remain callously indifferent to the pictures as well as the headlines...

 

[Enron]

It's an art Red. Not everyone has the discipline.

 

[swag]

I do my best. Of course, I'm almost never on social media which is the greatest human manipulation device man ever invented.

So I'm left to roll my eyes and think WTF when Jimmy Kimmel is balling his eyes out on TV over Cecil the Lion and I'm thinking about all the murdered people in Zimbabwe.

 

[Nicholas]

I live in the hope one day you'll like one of my Facebook posts Swag.

 

[swag]

What's Facebook?

You mean that corporate surveillance system where the founding CEO called the students submitting personal info to it "Dumb fucks"?

 

[Red]

I do my best. Of course, I'm almost never on social media which is the greatest human manipulation device man ever invented.

So I'm left to roll my eyes and think WTF when Jimmy Kimmel is balling his eyes out on TV over Cecil the Lion and I'm thinking about all the murdered people in Zimbabwe.

Is it just that people aren't well enough informed?

If you pay some attention to current events in general you are going to have a decent idea of what bad things are happening, so a picture only serves as confirmation of what you knew/assumed was going on.

Or are people genuinely surprised when it turns out bad things are happening - to active participants and innocent bystanders - in conflicts?

Are people really not thinking of what is happening when they see footage of a bomb being dropped and the subsequent explosion unless they are shown a picure of the result, with charred human remains and an assortment of scattered body parts?

 

[Völler]

Just booked my tickets for the City-Juve game.

Thanks for the verification. I hope you enjoy the match.

 

[swag]

Is it just that people aren't well enough informed?

If you pay some attention to current events in general you are going to have a decent idea of what bad things are happening, so a picture only serves as confirmation of what you knew/assumed was going on.

Or are people genuinely surprised when it turns out bad things are happening - to active participants and innocent bystanders - in conflicts?

Are people really not thinking of what is happening when they see footage of a bomb being dropped and the subsequent explosion unless they are shown a picure of the result, with charred human remains and an assortment of scattered body parts?

People know. They absolutely know. But until it becomes personal, it's just part of the endless drumbeat of an ever-growing body count.

A photo can make it personal. It can make you identify more closely with a friend or family member and elicit tremendous empathy where the parade of news headlines seems both remote and desensitizing.

 

[lgorTudor]

 

[swag]

I'm sorry, but this story is so lost into the weeds... and completely lost from the context of the grander story of the migrant problem.

 

[lgorTudor]

I'm sorry, but this story is so lost into the weeds... and completely lost from the context of the grander story of the migrant problem.

human beings can't be a problem

 

[swag]

human beings can't be a problem

They are if 50 storm your house asking to use the bathroom.