What's the point of retelling tragedy? The media describes an untold number of tragedies, every day, in great detail, in pictures, films, words and sounds. For example; Thousands of people die in an earthquake and in the flash of a second every person with a radio, TV or newspaper knows about the tragedy in great detail. Even greater detail than the people actually involved in the tragedy. Tragedy, in modern times has two aspects; Vividness and Vastness. Vividness of the description of the tragedy and vastness of the audience who gets to know about it. We can add a third aspect, namely; Velocity. That is the speed with with which the vast audience recieves the vivid description.
These three aspects of tragedy can be summed up in a word, namely; Impact. Each day you can open the news and get shocked.
Getting shocked, however, doesn't bring any thought or action.
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