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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve heard about it. I’m sure it’s excellent, but I can’t.

  I used to be able to do it. I used to watch all kinds of post-nuke and nuclear war movies in the 80s and 90s. I read John Hersey’s Hiroshima more than once. But I can’t do it anymore. It’s just too scary.

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  • snor10@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, no point watching if you can’t absorb it in a meaningful way.

    I’m so desensitized it almost feels academic.

    Maybe I’m a coward who emotionally deflect reality, as if watching a strange object.

    At least you choose to either see reality in the eye or to deflect your gaze, perhaps a more honest approach.

    Well, we do all this reflexively anyway. So there might not be much of a point to dwell on it, sorry for getting philosophical on you.

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