Personally, I don't find all these displays of extreme cruelty and violence to be disturbing as much as frivolous. That is the disturbing part. That we've relegated our propensity to be monstrously indifferent to each other as possibly entertaining. And I'm convinced that we've done this out of abject fear.
But then, I'm old.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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