“As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.” - Susan Sontag
Susan doubted the reality behind each image shown to public. She believes that those images that might not be the truth shapes people's mindset and our way of looking at the world. When we look at atrocious images, there are two desirable response: sympathy and suspicion.
In my opinion, images presented through media have already brainwashed people that we should react either in a sympathy way or in a suspicious way. These two reactions are like computer programs that are set as default reactions after we are exposed to the images. It causes people to be numbed and that what they do is reacting to the image according to the mentioned emotions without thinking deeply on what might be really happening in the real world.
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