A plane crashes. Lives are lost. And before the dust settles, it's already content. Not only have we moved on—we've moved on without even noticing that we didn't care. Videos circulate. Opinions fly. Footage is recycled from past accidents. Then, in no time, we move on, not because we've processed what happened, but because our attention has already moved elsewhere.
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Originally published in NDTV on 8 oct '25.
Human beings have always flinched at pain and fled discomfort. The struggle is not new—what's new is how conveniently we can now avoid facing it. We live in a world built to distract—a world where discomfort is not confronted, but scrolled past.
A plane crashes. Lives are lost. And before the dust settles, it's already content. Not only have we moved on—we've moved on without even noticing that we didn't care. Videos circulate. Opinions fly. Footage is recycled from past accidents. Then, in no time, we move on, not because we've processed what happened, but because our attention has already moved elsewhere.
This isn't a new failure of our times. It's the same old pattern of avoidance, now multiplied by speed and scale. Technology has only made it easier to stay on the surface, harder to pause and look inward.
