Now is a great age for death. Death is now an abstraction — something that happens in images: on phones, TVs, computer screens; death is always something that happens to other people. Floods, hurricanes, famines, shootings, bombings — if we are reading about them, it means we are safely ensconced from them; free from death. Or so we feel. Media addiction is addiction to the concept that death is always elsewhere. If the government threatens to reduce healthcare, its potential impact is reported as a statistic, not as an individual tragedy, as something that happens to individual people. We no longer experience death as a spiritual event, we can only experience it as information. Data.
