The chilling act of distancing in proximity within a live genocide; benumbing of human senses. A personal analytical narrative as a viewer Participant.
Distancing is a survival mechanism we all learn through experience, at times innately, the connotation of it being negative or positive is determined by context; learnt perceptions and responses to distancing from threat be it cultural or social; and it is both individual and group experience, often feeding on to one another is a circular fashion only to be broken when the stimuli or context evoking the act of distancing disappear or looses it strength to evoke a response. Distancing often can be physical or mental or combination of both, it is possible we as individuals may learn to give preference for one over the other, this choice can be personal, cultural, survival or all of these combined. For example, there is often a saying when faced with threat the response could be either fight or flight, within this example there is a common factor that is the act of distancing. When we decide to flee, we acknowledge our fear or the threat and decide distance would bring safe...