Adam Curtis explores the phenomenon of distant suffering and its impact on contemporary politics and media. The recent decades have seen a rising focus in the media on suffering, especially distant suffering, which leaves us apathetic and unable to act on the problems we are exposed of. Since the feeling of pity and, on a good day, a drop of indignation, never gets reinforced through political action, the affects are gradually dulled and lose their intensity. In the end, we merely mobilize a lax
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