One of the ideas that was touched upon was in the Sontag article about the "culture of spectacle." (pg. 265) Sontag discusses in her article that it is quite possible that our "culture of spectacle" has numbed us to images of violence and we react with detachment and apathy. Though Sontag doesn't fully outline the "culture of spectacle," I extracted that this is the way in which our culture has saturated itself with constant violent images and stories through the news media as well as the way in which violence is used as a form of entertainment. Sontag talked about how we are drawn to such spectacles, yet we are also repulsed by this desire (pg. 264). This is an interesting thought because of the increasing popularity of violent entertainment that include movies (Saw, Hostel, anything Quentin Tarantino) and video games. If anything, I would say that Sontag is incorrect for the most part in saying that images of violence make us feel more compelled to take action. I think that in most cases, people are detached: They don't know the people and to care about every single instance of violence one hears or reads about in the news would be an extremely heavy burden to carry. I understand that Sontag is trying to defend those who make these images and she is trying to stress how important these images are, and I agree that they are important but this "culture of spectacle" has made us feel apathetic to violence. I am not sure if most people allow themselves to be "haunted" by these images. Violence as entertainment may be a large part of why a "culture of spectacle" exists, but it is alongside these very real images of violence around the world. It is becoming increasingly difficult for me to distinguish what is entertainment in the news and what part of it is genuinely trying to get people to care about these cases of violence. Often, it seems as though the news media capitalizes on the fact that people are drawn by violence--and the most extreme of cases--to sell papers or entice viewers. I am not thinking that we should immerse ourselves in solving every issue of violence we hear about, I am only suggesting that it is highly disturbing that we have turned human suffering into something we entertain ourselves with and respond to lightly in many cases. On page 272, Sontag says "we now have a vast repository of images that make it harder to maintain this kind of moral defectiveness." I would argue that this has forced most to become more detached. It also seems that there is much more evidence to say that our moral defectiveness has increased because of our use of violence as entertainment.