The Numbing of the American Mind

I really liked this article, it kind of called us out on how we're losing sight of what's real and what matters. As I said in class, I really like the part where he talks about wolves and how we "see them" but don't actually see them. The only way we "really" see things are through accidents. And even when that happens, we get bored. All of this really echoes everything in the book White Noise. In White Noise there is a part about the "most photographed barn in America", which everyone can see, but again no one can actually see. We have these scripts encoded into us by our culture that tell us what to see and how to react. Like in the article, we are pretty much told we need to keep moving on and staying busy. That way at least, even if things hit us hard, we just keep moving. We become accustomed to disaster and no one can really experience it anymore. And the worst is if the disaster isn't disasterous enough, because then we feel disappointment as well. All this just goes to show that we have really become numb to everything that used to hold meaning. It's a little sad.