@boomerang,
I don't remember that boom, but I'm in no way surprised.
We just like to get upset about everything. Not saying this subject at hand is or is not worthy of upset. To me, that's beside the point.
Personally, and this is just so un-PC, I really don't give a crap.
We just, in general, can't stand not being irate about something, all the time.
Most days it seems every single thing, be in terrorist threats, or bonsai kittens, are thrust in our face demanding we become equally enraged.
There's no ******* filters for a lot of people. Everything is equally distressing. Not meaning anyone here per se, just 1st world countries in general. Or at least Americans who have access to the internet or a cell phone.
No wonder so many people are in therapy. We're constantly bombarded with mostly bullshit reasons to be angry, upset, ready to protest, boycott or retaliate.
In an evolutionary sense, maybe humans aren't capable of making this leap from knowing and caring what goes on in your immediate community to thinking you have skin in the game with every single thing that happens around the globe, that someone considered worth of putting online.
It's just too much, too fast, all the time, non-stop. We don't know what's going on with the woman 2 doors down that's dying of cancer and needs some help, but we absolutely must take immediate action to save (and comment on) some random kid on the other side of the globe who "isn't going to have a Christmas"
I don't know about anyone else, but I only have so much capacity to care to go around, and I'd rather do it much more locally.
