An alarmingly disturbed landscape

These are screenshots from combat drones, as well as anonymous phone shots of soldiers from various war zones from the Middle East to Ukraine over the past 2024. Despite the fact that now everyone can witness the fighting, all these monstrous destruction and an insane number of victims have turned into dry statistics and the usual routine of daily mass killings.The war has turned into an abstraction that cannot be logically explained or justified. A hundred years ago, the Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote in “Notebooks” that a person easily gets used to imminent death. “If an airplane had fallen down from somewhere in the stratosphere for two months, two months later it would be the end, but on the third or fourth day of the fall, passengers would have already got used to it, ladies would have smeared their lips, men would shave… So is the whole world now, used to falling, used to disaster…”