As war increasingly becomes handled by drones and remote weapons, this disconnect and callousness will only become worse.
The world was a better place when leaders had to lead from the front (mostly because the stupid ones didn't last long) and when doing harm to someone meant poking something sharp into them from such a close distance that you could feel them grunt and go limp and smell their breath as they collapsed onto you.
The more our reality becomes disconnected from, well, reality, the more barbaric it becomes.
Well said. Virtual reality, and the alleged "augmented" reality that lays over real reality is perverting a connection to what's real and unreal. The disconnect grows more and more as you say.
And as we become more disconnected, we become more unhappy, and tend to latch onto memes about how "evil" those other people are over there on the other side of the world, and how their evilness is attacking our freedom and perhaps thats why we are unhappy, and therefore it makes us happy to light them up.
What if the warfare state the US has become is really just an unconscious reflection of the underlying unhappiness of its people?
Yeah twisted suffering psyches (psycho-pathy: psyche-suffering).
Well, there you go!