What has happened to our level of outrage in this country. The Bush administration has been responsible for so many terrible things in our country. Why aren't more people outraged?
Perhaps the answer is that our capacity to be outraged is being desensitized. Just like the villagers began to ignore the little boy who called wolf, just like your body can turn off pain after a while, just like your brain can cut out noise or can convince your optic system to flip images from upside down to rightside up to accommodate, perhaps our brains cannot absorb the continual assault of outrageous events and we end up no longer able to be outraged by them.
Is this something the Bush administration understands, and they are able to get away with outrageous conduct because they know that the more outrageous actions they take, the less likely people are to protest because their capacity for outrage has been desensitized.
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