Privilege to not feel pain doesn't exist. True. But the desire to explore ways to at least not add to the pain is hard to fault. I don't find myself triggered by creative writing of any kind. So it would be easy for me to jump on the "too much pussfooting" wagon. But then I remember hearing a bit of this recording that was supposedly a piece of the real life recording of the death by Grizzly of two humans that inspired the end details of Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man. Even Herzog after hearing the tapes suggested they be destroyed and censored the recordings from being used in the movie. There is a power in the combination of actual trauma and technological transportation of that trauma into spaces incongruous with its nature. That tape can infect your soul. I imagine for some people, their lives make them open to that sort of pain from things that I wouldn't even notice. Until I understand the stakes, I would rather be too careful than too certain. I think so, anyway.
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