There's a psychological mechanism that turns good people into people who don't care about children #MentalHealth #therapy

There's a psychological mechanism that turns good people, you, and the people who don't care about dead children. Also you? The US and Israel bombed a girls elementary school in Iran over 100 kids, 7-12 years old, dead. You just felt something uncomfy and you want to scroll. I get it, but just give me one minute. There's a psychologist named Albert Bandura who spent his entire career studying one very specific question. How do good people end up participating in atrocity? Not monsters, not sociopaths, just regular people who love their kids and tip their servers and cry at Pixar movies. And what he found is that it doesn't happen all at once. It happens through small incremental steps he called moral disengagement. One of the primary mechanisms is repeated exposure to something horrible without ever actually letting yourself feel it, which is just a clinical way of saying the scroll. It's this fucking shit, right? Every time something like this happens and you move past that uncomfortable feeling without sitting in it, your brain files that away. And a threshold for what feels unbearable, it's a little higher and a little higher. You don't notice it happening and that's the entire point. So I want you to think about where you were like 10 years ago. If you had seen headlines like this, what would that have done to you? Now compare that to right now. That gap isn't you becoming more informed about geopolitics. That's been Dura's mechanism working exactly as described on you. There are mothers in Iran who kiss their daughters goodbye before their first day of school this week. And right now, they're identifying bodies. And there's no scroll for them ever, right? So just stay here for a moment, let it sink in, let yourself actually feel whatever is coming up, the helplessness, the rage, the grief, don't outsmart it, don't regulate it away. Because the decision you make in the next few seconds, whether you stay or whether you scroll, that's not just about today, that's about who you're slowly becoming.