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I was reading kt’s book by the beach and there was some blurp about how the stewardess does not stand up and exclaim at the beginning of the flight “ we are now flying over a cloud” . Which if you think about it is pretty fucking amazing. It would have made all the scientist of old weak in the keens at the prospect and reduced kings and emperors to excitedly babbling children. But I guess it’s a human survival mechanism, this desensitization. If not we would be babbling at every technological advancement and the whole world would ground to a halt.
Actually it works for everything… repetition is capable of desensitizes an emotional response to anything. Kinda scary if you extend it to ideals of love etc… especially nowadays when the throughput of experience we pack into a day is increasing. The time consumed by basic necessities keeps decreasing in tandem with the increasing ability to manage information ( well in the first world anyway ) leaving us free to consume a finite stock of new experiences.
Ok whatever I’m rambling ..
Actually it works for everything… repetition is capable of desensitizes an emotional response to anything. Kinda scary if you extend it to ideals of love etc… especially nowadays when the throughput of experience we pack into a day is increasing. The time consumed by basic necessities keeps decreasing in tandem with the increasing ability to manage information ( well in the first world anyway ) leaving us free to consume a finite stock of new experiences.
Ok whatever I’m rambling ..