In his Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age 
The Nagasaki syndrom “means that ‘what has been done once can be repeated over again, with ever weaker reservations’; with each successive case, more and more ‘matter-of-factly, casually, with little deliberation or motive.’ ‘The repetition of outrage is not just possible, but probably – as the chance to win the battle to prevent it gets smaller, while that of losing it rises’” (142).
It’s a gruesome sort of mimetic violence, a macabre illustration of Rupert Sheldrake’s “morphic resonance.”
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
A Catholic Approach to Immigration
In the USCCB’s recent Special Pastoral Message, the bishops of the United States highlight the suffering inflicted…
The Classroom Heals the Wounds of Generations
“Hope,” wrote the German-American polymath Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, “is the deity of youth.” Wholly dependent on adults, children…
Still Life, Still Sacred
Renaissance painters would use life-sized wooden dolls called manichini to study how drapery folds on the human…
