The Overdependence on Images in the Modern World

Images of violence and tragedy can have a negative effect on people's emotional responses, leading to a sense of numbness and detachment./nThe western world has a luxury of not having to deal with the violence and tragedy that is happening elsewhere, which allows people to patronize reality and view these events through a screen./nThis oversaturation of images can lead to the opposite effect of creating mobs of people who are blindly following someone else's agenda.