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The topic of desensitization was hit on some in Candide. I find it very interesting and prevalent to our society today. I feel like as people, in general, we’re so used to violence and profanity and hatred that it becomes the normal. This is kind of a lame example, but I used to watch Law & Order: SVU all the time, and literally without fail I would cry every episode. Blubbering would be a good way to describe it. I would feel so awful about these storylines, I knew it wasn’t necessarily a reality but the idea of these awful things happening would make me so sad. After a while it stopped bothering me. Not that I became heartless or anything, but it became just fiction. I guess the idea of desensitization is just so interesting to me, because it’s so real. Once you’re exposed to something over and over again it’s easy to view it as normal, or like in the book view it almost humorously. It’s a weird concept, that after a while things lose its meaning, but they does. Violence is so ordinary it’s now the initial reaction instead of a last result. It’s almost a scary thought. How far will it go? Will we become so immune to evil that it sincerely doesn’t matter anymore?