I'd argue against that and say that it isn't fully sub/unconscious effect.
Having never studied psychology, I don't know the underlaying mechanisms of this, but for me it starts as a wave of apathy that eventually grown into boredom and disinvestment from the story. If it were real life, I suppose it would be crushing despair instead.
Well what I reca-
I think people take Lord of the Flies aesop as a bit too... universal? For one, individuals aren't likely to act like the characters in the book. It's groups of people that do. And not all groups of people end up like that, either; mostly cold war era nation states.
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Anyway, what I recall is that 'someone died and apathy was felt by the killer; people got rescued when they didn't think they would be, and said person who died is forgotten and their killers just went scot free'
I orient you towards what the killers' personality was as a counter balance to said apathy you may feel.
Not everyone is like that. And what attitudes you see equal a value that a person upholds. It is not universally shared, but learned.
So
But I understand the growing... 'apathy' part after reading it. However, don't believe that it holds for quite much everyone.
They just put my IV in, and I fainted.
Not surprised, it's just that fainting is not pleasent.
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All wishes to you be blessed, cheese. Hope you're going to be ok (and trust those who serve you! Treat your doctors/nurses with a smile
)...and/or don't expect the worst.