It seems like horrible things are happening in Louisiana. It’s under water again. And the tragedy isn’t being covered very well by the media. Because it’s so much more important to report that Trump said some dumb thing again.
It’s terribly sad and unfair but when the same tragedy strikes a person, a group, or a place several times, it gets progressively less possible to get people to care with every new iteration of the tragedy.
There was this woman who was raped, and everybody felt enormous sympathy and tried to help. And then she was raped for the second time, and the sympathy dwindled. People actually started to shun her. Or there was also this fellow who was diagnosed with cancer, beat it, and got diagnosed with a different kind of cancer. The irritated indifference he encountered after the second diagnosis was in a stark contrast to the helpfulness and compassion he got after the first one.
It’s like people get angry with you if you deny them a chance to reaffirm a happy ending narrative.
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I heard there were floods in Moscow too.
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