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8 Comments:
I think all people have experienced this to some degree. I think it's called shottenfreud or something similar. It's probably left over from a simpler time when we weren't inundated with these images all day long, just lived out our lives without seeing disasters every month or week, or it seems now almost daily. I dunno, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who's felt that way.
I watched the same thing. I think the newscasters are especially disappointed when there is no disaster. Then they have to go back to the "regular" news.
I'm not terribly interested in man-made drama/disasters, but I can intensely relate to your fascination with natural disasters... storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes. The full power of a dispassionate universe. It is a reminder that there's something far greater than ourselves, far more powerful than anything we create... and that's a kind of terrible beauty.
Good observation.
yeah, it's like when the trade towers came down, or watching the tsunami footage -- any disaster is a view of death that magnetizes our attention and awe
fact. i agree, and really like what you've seen in us. it really is exciting to see / hear bad news when it's not about us. i suppose it's the same as the much retold story of the root of all comedy. we love it when bad things happen to other people. i mean, we don't love it, we love to hear about it. i don't think this makes us bad people.
I am totally in agreement that we crave disasters. Most of us do not like seeing others suffer, but for some reason it really fascinates us. The media depends upon disaster for ratings. It is sad but news about happiness just doesn't sale.
I've had my fill of death and violence, car crashes, blood, guns going off near me, etc., yet I am strangely attracted to these things. Maybe it's my inner journalist or else the part of me that tries to help people and almost gets myself killed once a year or so.
My old motto: act first, think later. My new motto: Think first but do it anyway.
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