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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I spent my formative years living in a pretty poor small town that is disaster prone where I woke up in my bedroom being flooded. The adults in the house love watching primetime news and thus at an early age I am exposed to politics and news about murders and so on. It's not that I don't care, I really do because my parents and having been raised Catholic taught me empathy, but the wars and killings (although I'm aware that the rate of homicide is gradually decreasing over the course of human history) has become non-news to me. So I have been made aware early in life that not everything is always roses. There are something's one cannot have control of but i participate in things I could change like with protests, even if it's little. But broadly speaking, I am desensitised of the news on the conflicts in Middle East or Africa. So when the market reacts, I'm like: "how are you guys not used to it?"