So with the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war and the official number of dead from the wars reaching 4000, what are the stories I keep seeing everywhere— how Britney’s doing an tonight appearance on “How I met Your Mother” or the even somewhat culturally relevant issue of Obama’s Bad Week. This seems absurd.

While there is a level of escapism, I think that it even goes beyond that. I also think that over the past decade there has been a mind-numbing approach to all of the awful things in the world.

While there is the ability through Internet to gain global knowledge and to see deeply into any issue; there is also a tendency for today’s media to only imply the evils and to protect from seeing anything bad. That way we only see violence in a safe, movie setting and are desensitized so much so that death, destruction can seem fake in real life.

 I don’t know how to change this desensitization other than just humanizing the situations—not just numbers but the people that are actually impacted telling their story more to the world.  Interesting question to think about though…..