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   HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 02:16:59 JST HebrideanHecate

   https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/12/30/what-new-yorks-burning-woman-tells-us-about-our-times/

   They used to say we lived in a ‘walk on by’ society. Now we live in something worse: a stop-and-film society. Yesteryear’s habit of hurrying one’s pace past a mugging or a kid being bullied is nothing compared with the latest trend for stopping, whipping out one’s phone and recording the wicked deed for clicks and likes on social media. The old heads-down shuffling away from crimes and misdemeanours spoke to a fraying of social bonds, sure. But this new urge to make a spectacle of people’s misfortunes, to document their suffering for the moral titillation of strangers online, speaks to a cult of voyeurism that is as inhumane as it is creepy.

   When the barbarous immolation of a homeless woman goes viral, you know something rotten is afoot.