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I turned on the television today, to watch the news and to hopefully find something to react to. Among the dozens of stories on murder, rape, thievery, and general all-around nastiness, there was nothing in particular that really struck me. Now, I could have written about the Manila Film Festival and the lousiness of most of the entries, or about Nida Blanca's slaying and all the media hype which surrounded it (when in truth, shit much worse than that happens every day, to more undeserving people), or about the worsening social and economical conditions. But as I said before, these topics have been horribly overused, and besides, I saw nothing therein which surprised me. What I did notice was how desensitized I've become to all of this. I should have been affected by the child with the hollowed eyes and a tumor, which should have its own zip code attached to his head. I should have felt a grain of pity for Van dolph Quizon's girlfriend who is now dead because of his stupidity. And I should have been devastated by the human condition. But ho-hum, I'm not. So I started questioning why I was feeling the way I was. If I had seen all these images and stories a long time ago, I would have been appalled. Was it because I was younger then?
Come to think of it, my brother is young and he reacts the same way I do. So that basically rules age out. So I figured it's probably because the media feeds us so much of it everyday. And instead of instantly being affected, we are obviously not. So this is my reaction. Essentially, I am reacting to nothing, because this is what I feel, and this is what I have been reduced to.
And after all these years of listening to musicians rap about raping their enemies' girlfriends, and seeing pictures of bloodies corpses both on the television and on the internet, I have only begun to realize what a pity it is I didn't turn that shit off when I was told to.
