I know some have already touched on Candide's idea of desensitization. I would just like to say that it hit me again as thought-provoking. Im beginning to realize more and more of how we have grown "numb" to certain issues and things. In my science class yesterday we were talking about how some scientists have tried to make known that there could be other "life species" or "life forms" on other planets. What the scientists consider "life forms" is a simple virus of some kind picked up when the Hubble telescope is sent to another planet. However, another student brought up the fact that we could sit and listen to scientests make assumptions that there are life forms on another planet when on earth we go as far as to say that what is growing inside of a women is not a life, a baby. The issue of abortion can be looked at when talking about being desensitized. The Bible says do not murder, yet we kill unborn children because we say they are not a life. Its really sad how we have become numb to the things that are normally supposed to make us upset and angry. The world we live in today is ever changing, and the fact that it has brought us this far can be a scary thought when we look towards the future.
I dont know if this was totally off the wall or what, i just thought about it and it really did make me think twice about it.
P.s i commented on Kaylie's post.
Not only are we desensitized from our emotions and how we feel about people, but we start to pretend that some things are not really as big of a deal as they are. You mentioned abortion. People make up special terms and everything to attempt to desensitize our emotions, so we can try to justify what we are doing is not wrong. Many types of sin that God clearly shows as a big deal, we act as though it does not matter much. Like we talked about in class we use circumlocution (going the long way around to avoid a certain word) to make us feel better about doing wrong things. Lying is called distorting the truth, stealing is "borrowing", divorce is seperating. Our world needs to stop avoiding and desensetizing thing and look at them for what they really are.
ReplyDeleteI found myself watching the news one morning this week over breakfast. At one point I actually stopped and asked myself what I was doing. The reporter was talking about death and tragedy, and the most important thing on my mind was that my grits needed more salt. As hard as I tried, I couldn't make myself truly care. Sure, I was mildly concerned, but the footage and the information didn't ruin my day. In fact, I can't even recall what the story was about. It's hard to admit, but we really are desensitized to a lot of the negative things around us.
ReplyDeleteIt's so true. We see tragedy in the world all the time and I think it's like you said; we've become desensitized to it all. I probably also doesn't help that most of our entertainment is centered on a tragedy, but then that is all it becomes to us - a story.
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