Andrew Gallagher on Nostr: If the same horrific things keep happening for years, they become normal. When ...
If the same horrific things keep happening for years, they become normal. When horrific things become normal, our way of thinking about them changes. Our anger burns out, our sense of purpose washes away, and we treat them as natural disasters to be endured, rather than moral outrages to be fought.
Crime, poverty, murder. War. Rape. Genocide.
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