Something strange happens during wars. At the beginning, the world gasps. People pause. Headlines shock us. But then, slowly, something else happens. The absurd becomes ordinary. The first images disturb us deeply. A building collapsing. A child crying. Smoke rising over a city. We stare at the screen longer than usual. We feel something heavy inside.

However, a few weeks later, the same images appear again. And again. And again. Eventually, the human mind does something strange. It adapts. What once feels intolerable begins to feel familiar. Violence slowly turns into background noise. Scholars term it as the normalization of violence, where repeated exposure gradually makes spectacular brutality seem routine.

This is how the absurd silently creeps into everyday life. A missile strike becomes a news update. A destroyed street becomes a video clip. Human suffering becomes a statistic. We scroll past it during our convenient time.

Psychologists observe that nonstop exposure to violent content changes how people perceive reality, making the world appear to them as eternally dreadful and disorderly. But something deeper also happens. We........

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