Andi Chorley"By reflexively scrolling, seeing but not absorbing, so many of us have been dulled by the sheer glut of life. As well as the flood of takes, shit-posting, AI slop fake footage and a million talking heads and podcasters on YouTube and streaming sites.
I have lost track of the number of “breaking news” posts and videos on the war on social media that upon closer inspection were entirely made up by authoritative-looking accounts farming for engagement. When the true and false jostle constantly in the content slipstream, nothing feels real.
....It is enormously difficult amid such swirling forces to hold on to a sense of empathy, to follow a moral compass, to understand that thousands of innocent people are dying, their homes destroyed, their nations destabilised for a generation."
This is not a side effect but by design as well as a war on the country and people of Iran this is a war on empathy.
