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I actually talked about this with some politically minded co-workers today to work my way though what I felt and thought. We also agreed that we have become desensitized to it. Watching the memorials and the replays of the footage on Sunday was like watching a movie in an objective fashion, not the extremely emotional experience that we shared back on that day. We also agreed that we are feeling desensitized to the Katrina disaster as well. It does not bring the same level of emotion that it brought a week ago.
That makes me wonder.. is our 24/7 coverage of these things making us less empathetic in the long run?
ETA: That day, I went to the snack shop in our building during the afternoon and saw a newspaper from that morning that was announcing Michael Jordan's retirement (or return?). I remember thinking "That paper was written when the world was still normal"
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