Titanic submersible es morte
The public should be ashamed of themselves over what they give attention to.
I think ‘attention’ is the correct framing - as a theatre teacher, I’ve been wrestling with this dynamic quite a bit - we are story telling/making creatures
Story draws our attention- we are hard wired for that
Stalin correctly and horrendously said ‘one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic’
Billionaires is an easy, self-contained story with lots of brain chemistry tickles to keep us focused - we get to feel smarter than billionaires while also being envious of them
There’s nothing neat and tidy about immigrants in a boat drowning (or being caged in a Tx border town, or Palestinians being terrorized, or uighurs being killed, et al) - once we acknowledge the ‘story’ we are complicit- it feels like we should do something- and we feel as powerless about those situations as we do climate change
Show we have a choice- acknowledge and feel like impotent **** or see it as a ‘statistic’
Neither are great, but it’s understandable why we don’t give broad social/cultural/political emerging tragedies the same attention we give bite sized stories