[Def.] "Voyeurs: Obsessive observers of sordid or sensational subjects. (Compare to Peeping Tom)
The recovery and resilience of this woman and her children is a testimony to the human spirit.
But somehow, I don't think that is the part of the story that America is collectively and compulsively drawn to, is it. We, (thanks to television and media) are unexplicably drawn to the scene of road kill and revel in the repeated replay of the cringe inducing details of the events that led up to it.
While we have spent our energies since crawling from the caves and into scientific exploration attempting to change the nature of this very planet itself.
But have done very little to change human nature, other than to improve our access to our baser interests and fascination with the perverse.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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