Ah, ‘desensitisation’, that’s the word. I’ve been writing about it and saying it in a long winded way, but now, thanks to doing research for my school project, I’ve found the word again.
Repeated exposure to negative elements, for example, portrayals of violence, lewdness, and absurd behaviour, can desensitise a person towards those elements. One can, as a result, become more tolerant towards such elements. With the proliferation of such elements through Big Media, the realisation of this pattern on a large scale will have grave consequences for all of us.
