Our Addiction to Disaster Porn

I find it hard to watch what you term disaster porn. Not a bad term.

I just read that a good strategy is just to boycott watching the “bads” (news isn’t a great term), or at least to give it a limit of, say, 5 minutes a day. I think I can handle 5 minutes.

Re disaster porn: I think of how easy it is to hook people, or rather for people to get hooked, addicted, caught, trapped from deep inside ourselves, if it’s to daytime soaps, cocaine or disaster porn.

And yet at the same time so much of reality perception, thinking, is missed out on. In other words, disaster addiction doesn’t increase reality perception.

What to do? Best, I find, is have something you care about so that the disaster epics just don’t feel interesting. I cared about 9/11, the tsunami, etc. I did not watch much - ultra little, in fact. And sometimes I think i missed out on something - something like not going to Weedstock. Oops, Woodstock. (Interesting slip - could not be a type, as e and o are not close to each other.)

Anyway, I have no answer except that the more we find out own lives of interest, the less we are likely to be caught by disaster porn.

That doesn’t mean we don’t care, don’t give, etc - but it frees up enormous amounts of attention and energy.

Posted by Elsa on Feb 6, 2010 at 5:56 AM

Very interesting publication here but I really do not understand why many people say that porn is something bad. I think that many people watch it but almost all do not want to admit it. Personally I think that it is a natural thing and we should not be shy of that. Well, before several years I have visited various porn stars websites and the most I like pornstar Abbey Brooks. She is really a beautiful woman and I respect her despite the fact that she works in this sphere. All people can choose how to live so we should not to judge anybody. Anyway thanks a lot for the ability to express my own opinion. Regards.

Posted by Amanda44 on Oct 26, 2010 at 9:16 AM