There is a peculiar kind of numbness that the modern world has perfected. We have been so thoroughly saturated with suffering — scrolling past famine and war and displacement and injustice in an endless feed that flattens everything into the same visual weight — that our nervous systems have learned to protect us from feeling it. The algorithm serves us outrage and beauty and tragedy in equal measure and our brains, overwhelmed, start making unconscious calculations about what deserves our energy. What is close enough. What is solvable. What affects people who look like us, live like us, exist within the invisible borders of what we have been conditioned to consider our world.

Brandi Morin: The World Is Scrolling Past a People’s Extinction