Outrage fatigue is that feeling you get when someone you know is outraged and offended by everything. After awhile, it just becomes words and an outlet for their anger and mental issues. People rightfully and correctly talk about "snowflakes" being offended by everything-and it's true, college students who complain that they have to read Shakespeare because he's a "dead white male" are obnoxious and delusional, but so are older snowflakes who found something offensive in every single tv show, movie, comic book, music album and game or hobby.
No one can be genuinely offended all the time. It's not possible. You would become too tired and too emotionally drained after awhile. Being "genuinely offended" is a good thing because it means you have morals and values. Bluntly put though-acting like you are genuinely offended just because you see a girl in a bikini on prime time or hear the word "damn" coming from an eighth grader means you can't control you are suffering from something deeper than moral outrage. You are probably wanting to show how holy you are and how the rest of the world is a fallen and sick place. You also inflict outrage fatigue on everyone around you.
When you treat everything like it's a mortally offensive, the term "mortally offensive" loses it's actions. If you are called "stupid" by your boss every day it begins to lose it's power and you realize that the problem is with the name caller, not the person being called the name. With outrage fatigue eventually everyone around realizes that the problem isn't with the world, it's with you.
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