People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration.
Susan SontagWhen Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.
Susan Sontag