Social Numbness Quotes

Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the Internet. We've become numb, so we do nothing. The accumulation of passivity might make reading about that exploitation uncomfortable. And sometimes when I'm writing, I think of it like this: "People seem to like garbage, so here is what garbage smells like..."

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.

The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.

Sometimes, we get numb to the fact that people get sent away. We don't see where they are; we say they are 'doing time,' and you really don't know what that is.

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.