{"id":40407,"date":"2022-06-22T07:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=40407"},"modified":"2022-06-22T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T14:22:19","slug":"disaster-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=40407","title":{"rendered":"Disaster Porn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Disaster-porn: \u201cto <em>satisfy the pleasure that viewers take in seeing other people\u2019s misfortunes, as by constantly repeating vision of an event, often without commentary or context<\/em>\u201d.  &#8211; Australia Macquarie Dictionary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My morning readings include the news from Europe, brought to me among others by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/\">Der Spiegel<\/a>, <\/em>a German weekly and the country&#8217;s largest news platform on the web. All photographs but one today were seen on their site last week, and elicited decidedly mixed feelings. They lure with beauty while depicting disaster, simultaneously drawing attention to human suffering as well as away from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.21.12-PM.png?resize=890%2C597&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.21.12-PM.png?resize=1024%2C687&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.21.12-PM.png?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.21.12-PM.png?resize=768%2C515&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.21.12-PM.png?resize=560%2C376&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.21.12-PM.png?resize=80%2C54&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.21.12-PM.png?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">An ice vendor waiting for customers during the worst heat wave in decades. In neighboring Nawabshah (Pakistan) the highest value ever recorded: 128.7 F on May 1st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somehow the term disaster-porn came to mind. It is a phrase often used to define depictions of suffering in the developing world, but also applied to the increasing number of end-of-world or other catastrophe movies coming out of the film industry, and not just in Hollywood. Is it ethical to depict, create and watch all this stuff? Let me put the answer right in front: it can be, theoretically. At least this was what I concluded after reading the <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/1536504213487695\">essay<\/a> that I am summarizing today while trying to solve my dilemma.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.16.56-PM.png?resize=890%2C588&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.16.56-PM.png?resize=1024%2C676&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.16.56-PM.png?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.16.56-PM.png?resize=768%2C507&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.16.56-PM.png?resize=280%2C185&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.16.56-PM.png?resize=560%2C370&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.16.56-PM.png?resize=80%2C53&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.16.56-PM.png?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The remnants of a container depot in Bangladesh that stood in flames and then exploded, throwing heavy objects through the air for hundreds of yards. Dozends dead, hundreds injured. Foto: picture alliance \/ dpa \/ AP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term disaster-porn can be found as early as 1987 when a Washington Post editorial about the stock market crash. It described that those of us doting on the disasters in cinematic action dramas are lured into believing that it is either all fake, or that we personally will escape bad fate in the end, never mind the millions we watch dying in catastrophic scenarios. The term has been popularized ever since, sometimes in specific ways, like in Pat Cadigan&#8217;s 1991 Sci-Fi novel\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksamillion.com\/p\/Synners\/Cadigan-Pat\/Q684423986?id=7754366923533\">Synner<\/a><\/em>\u00a0which used \u201cporn\u201d as a suffix denoting an excessive, overly <em>aestheticized<\/em> focus on a single topic. (The award-winning novel, by the way, envisions a world where the line between machines and reality becomes porous, a possible disaster scenario now in the real-life news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/19\/opinion\/its-not-the-future-we-cant-see.html\">30 years later<\/a>&#8230;just google AI.) The phrase is thus applied not just to fictional descriptions of disasters but also to round-the-clock depictions of round-the-world catastrophes by the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.30.45-AM.png?resize=890%2C596&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.30.45-AM.png?resize=1024%2C686&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.30.45-AM.png?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.30.45-AM.png?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.30.45-AM.png?resize=560%2C375&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.30.45-AM.png?resize=80%2C54&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.30.45-AM.png?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Iraqi boys herding sheep in a sandstorm. They are not allowed to enter into the province of Najaf, to avoid spreading the Crim-Congo fever. They are stuck at the border in the middle of the storm. Foto: Quassem Al-Kaabi\u00a0\/ AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the problem? On the one hand, in an ever more interconnected world where we might be called on or able to help with disasters even at distant locations, information about them helps our collective mind to make decisions. In other word, the depictions might elicit <em>empathy<\/em> and understanding, which can turn into human solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, there are multiple problems. Disaster-porn can be gratuitous and exploitative &#8211; published to sell clicks, or used as justification to simplify complex geopolitical realities, and thereby encourage military operations under the guise of humanitarian action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, over-exposure to images of doom can lead to a muting of your reaction, draining our reserves of pity, <em>desensitizing<\/em> us to others&#8217; pain. It can be experienced as damaging our own sense of well-being, thus having us turn away from the suffering in the world. Compassion fatigue elicited by a pity crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.17.51-PM.png?resize=890%2C596&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.17.51-PM.png?resize=1024%2C686&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.17.51-PM.png?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.17.51-PM.png?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.17.51-PM.png?resize=560%2C375&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.17.51-PM.png?resize=80%2C54&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.17.51-PM.png?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Boy amidst storks sifting garbage in the Indian province of Guwahati. Dangerous because of the extreme heat &#8211; several garbage dumps have spontaneously caught fire and combusted. Foto: Biju Boro\u00a0\/ AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is some inherent psychological truth to the fact that we better protect ourselves from too much exposure to bad news. If we feel that there is absolutely no way we can interfere with the starvation, drowning, imprisoning, wounding, torture, and killing of people, seeing them exposed to these situations will create a sense of anxiety that we will try to resolve by averting our eyes. A barrage of doom scenarios leads to feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, both associated with depression, and subsequent paralysis when we think about possible action &#8211; just no sense left, that we could make a difference. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2071-1050\/8\/1\/6\">Here<\/a> is just one of the studies that lays out that scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.20.36-PM.png?resize=890%2C596&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.20.36-PM.png?resize=1024%2C686&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.20.36-PM.png?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.20.36-PM.png?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.20.36-PM.png?resize=560%2C375&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.20.36-PM.png?resize=80%2C54&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-12.20.36-PM.png?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Another way to cope with extreme heat across Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">&#8220;<em>Disaster porn, then, in all its iterations and for all its flaws, is a vital political terrain in which publics are at least implicitly asked to struggle with the social significance of the suffering of others. It connects public issues like war, famine, earthquakes, and terrorist attacks to the private lives of those they affect, and shows us how disruptions of social structure become disruptions in individual biographies. This is the case in even the most seemingly stereotypical news reports of suffering in the developing world, and in even the most outlandish Hollywood disaster epics as well.<\/em>&#8221;  (<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/1536504213487695\">Ref<\/a>.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Literature and disaster movies contribute in an odd way: they do describe the role chance plays with some people being more endangered than others, some surviving when others don&#8217;t. Yes, there are heroes (or villains) who manage to suggest that with some amount of smarts and vision you can still control the outcome (echoing our sense of exceptionalism in U.S. culture), but there are all the others who are not so lucky, because it is often determined by the vicissitude of geographical location alone, rather than specific talents or skills. Chance confers the privilege of survival. It might make us think about our own privilege and so raise compassion, since so far chance has spared us, amidst the forest fires, or floods or infectious diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.28.16-AM.png?resize=890%2C553&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.28.16-AM.png?resize=1024%2C636&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.28.16-AM.png?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.28.16-AM.png?resize=768%2C477&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.28.16-AM.png?resize=560%2C348&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.28.16-AM.png?resize=80%2C50&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-18-at-7.28.16-AM.png?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The Clark Ford River flooded the houses of many of the inhabitants of Fromberg, MO. This is a lawn ornament submerged in the waters. Foto: David Goldman\u00a0\/ AP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leave it to me to read and watch these kinds of novels and films, if only to spare you to have to do it yourself&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My current target is a 1973 science fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thriftbooks.com\/w\/japan-sinks_sakyo-komatsu\/561223\/item\/15904946\/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwkruVBhCHARIsACVIiOwTFxsM8UvIWqeYlUK_x-Pz5SP8-sKaTDWSKexLOWlkIcMcqXXZBP0aAqKcEALw_wcB#idiq=15904946&amp;edition=10780234\">Japan Sinks<\/a>, <\/em>which took 9 years to write.<em> <\/em>It has been made into numerous films, a highly praised anim\u00e9 version among them. Some had altered endings, some were withheld during certain time periods because they were too close on the heels of real life disasters in Japan, given the exposure to earthquakes and the Fukushima catastrophe. The latest, a Netflix production, is so bad that I recommend it on a day where you need help to erupt in laughter &#8211; the acting &#8211; if you can call it that &#8211;  guarantees that you will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book, however, is worming its way into my brain. The basic story concerns a scientist&#8217;s discovery of the likelihood that all of Japan, the entire archipelago, is going to go under due to earthquakes, ocean floor faults, and what not. One of the narrative lines concerns how the government is handling the crisis, from negligence to obstruction to panic. <em>Don&#8217;t look up, <\/em>this year&#8217;s U.S. disaster movie that I discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=35320\">here<\/a><em>,<\/em> probably took a page out of that book. Another line focusses on the distribution of millions of people around the world, with nationalist impulses against immigration vying with empathy for a drowning people. The philosophical question it raises, though, is one that we will have to think through in climate change migrations to come: what does it do to your identity, as member of a nation, or a tribe or a culture or a language group, when the place that defines you ceases to exist? Literally is no longer there to return to? Is it destructive to lose that connection to place which is a base for underlying sense of self, or is it empowering because you can shed the debt you incurred as a member of the nation (say of an imperialistic or fascistic past) and start from scratch? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think it through &#8211; time not spent doom scrolling&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-9.47.33-AM.png?resize=868%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-9.47.33-AM.png?resize=868%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 868w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-9.47.33-AM.png?resize=254%2C300&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-9.47.33-AM.png?resize=768%2C906&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-9.47.33-AM.png?resize=560%2C661&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-9.47.33-AM.png?resize=80%2C94&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-07-at-9.47.33-AM.png?w=1166&amp;ssl=1 1166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We could also focus on the message conveyed by a random stranger who was kind enough to let me photograph her t-shirt 2 days ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0148.jpg?resize=681%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0148.jpg?resize=681%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 681w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0148.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0148.jpg?resize=768%2C1155&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0148.jpg?resize=560%2C842&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0148.jpg?resize=80%2C120&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_0148.jpg?w=798&amp;ssl=1 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6FvEWsIVRRM\">The End of Time<\/a>, in music at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disaster-porn: \u201cto satisfy the pleasure that viewers take in seeing other people\u2019s misfortunes, as by constantly repeating vision of an event, often without commentary or context\u201d. &#8211; Australia Macquarie Dictionary My morning readings include the news from Europe, brought to me among others by Der Spiegel, a German weekly and the country&#8217;s largest news platform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,142,36,108],"tags":[851,848,849,852,850],"class_list":["post-40407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","category-movies","category-politics","category-psychology","tag-japan-sinks","tag-pat-cadigan","tag-sakyo-komatsu","tag-synner","tag-timothy-recuber"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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