The Literary Library

The unjust loss of human life, in theory, should shake us to our core.   It should evoke from us a visceral grief, the innate and primal reaction that arises when something sacred has been extinguished. For indeed, human life is sacred and the loss of a life should, at the very least, compel one to pause and reflect.  And yet increasingly, it doesn't.  In the backdrop of a politically tense and  volatile  global climate, plagued by the ongoing slaughter of Gazan civilians, widespread social unrest and most recently the high-profile assassination of conservative American commentator Charlie Kirk - our exposure to death has not only become increasingly more frequent but far more distorted.  The truth is that despite all our apparent 'Western' advancements, we are no longer disturbed or even remotely moved by human violence. Whether it be mindlessly scrolling past images of lifeless, amputated children, with a million justifications or brazenly sharing fo...