PAIN

"The profusion of violent imagery, and the fast pace and constant danger of modern life forces people to become more tolerant of pain and death:
The human will disciplines and outfits this flesh with such painstaking care that it now seems more indifferent to injury. Today, we again are able to bear the sight of death with greater indifference, since we no longer feel at home in our body as we did before. It no longer accords with our style to stop a flying show or a car race simply because of a deadly accident. Such accidents lie not outside but inside the zone of a new kind of security (p.43)."






   This quote means that our daily life is overwhelmed with violent acts and news so that it became common and usual to accommodate with them. For instance, reading a newspaper or watching TV will allow us to learn the different sort of crimes of the day. Another example is that it is common to encounter crime scenes or accidents daily. Therefore, this passage reminds us that the frequency of violence is so high that it is now a part of our culture. In addition, we can only be good at something if we keep practicing until we become excellent at it. At the end of the day humans were able to ease the pain as the time goes by. For example the same types of violence are repeated over the time and people will hear a new violence and make a reference to an old one that happened in the past. For example the shooting that occurred in Colorado and Newtown are almost similar because both gunmen went to publics places where we as humans did not expect this kind of violence to happen to these locations (movie theater and elementary school). Moreover, the author’s message tells us that we are no longer willing t do anything in order to stop this pain which is a consequence of the violence. After those two massacres the country is divided into two groups:  pro-guns and citizens who are against guns.

Conformity and obedience is not a solution to pain because the obedience itself could engender more pain. That is why Nazi was able to govern Germany because Germans were convinced that the price to pay in exchange for a brighter economy. Therefore, this situation helped Hitler to engage the country to World War II and the pain that came from the war was greater than the previous one. For example millions of people were killed and the creation of Israel after the war more pain in the Middle East even today.