in the hour. but we start with the first public hearing of the january 6th committee. which is set to be a primetime hearing, next thursday. the bipartisan panelists interviewed about 1000 people, and received tens of thousands of pages of documents. they have the attempts by the president and his allies to overturn the election, and the attack on our democracy that culminated in the deadly insurrection. we have talked a lot on the show about how close we actually came to you losing our democracy that day. how the threat to our democracy is not over. but is in fact growing with republican efforts to subvert future elections. the key question is whether this committee, and in their hearings, will be able to breakthrough the noise and get the americans attention. in the watergate scandal, 70% of america reported watching the harry. the january six committee is unlikely to get that many viewers in today s polarizing environment. but can they get americans to pay attention for wh
absolutely. psychic numbing as we call it, or compassion fatigue, implies that we are so overloaded by living in a state of constant threat. our brains were not evolved to handle this. we have circumscribed threat, where we have one situation and our brain needs to wrap around, how can i do, how do i mobilize resources. but we are not meant to be living in conflict for the last two years because of the pandemic, war, inflation, gun shootings as you mentioned that have been going on for decades at this point. and are only getting worse, and are only getting more frequent. so, at the beginning of the pandemic i remember talking to a scientist about how we were essentially diverting to lizard brain. is that what you mean? we are in-flight are fright but all the time? and you re not supposed to be in flight or fight all the time.
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Psychic numbing is a psychological phenomenon that affects the way we make decisions. In other words, we worry a lot when one person suffers, but as problems grow like the coronavirus, which affects millions, we become insensitive.
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The researchers suggest that as the numbers in a tragedy increase more and more, we care less and less. In an interview with KGW News, University of Oregon psychologist Paul Slovic emphasizes a short sentence that summarizes his research results, and it is the more who die, the less we care, which is also the title of his study: The More Who Die, the Less We Care: Psychic Numbing and Genocide.
peter: great your back with us. from the irs targeting conserve scandal to the nsa scandal. what happened to president obama most transparent administration. 30% of americans think the administration is less transparent than the previous one. but is the media dropping the ball on covering these scandals? joining us is to lay in fox news contributors and my friend, ellen ratnor and jim pinkerton. ellen, your liberal media are they dropping the ball on this? well, yes. it s sort of what we call the mental health business, psychic numbing.