Not only should we accept this, we should realise that it is overwhelmingly a positive aspect of modern existence and get over this hangup that just because we're doing terrible things in virtual worlds it somehow makes us terrible people.
As Parul Sehgal said eloquently in her TED talk "We tell ourselves a story about other people's lives and these stories make us feel terrible because they're designed to make us feel terrible.
Mr. Rodriguez told another top C.I.A. official that if the images were disclosed "out of context, they would make us look terrible; it would be 'devastating' to us," an e-mail said.
One declassified C.I.A. e-mail, dated November 10 , 2005 and written by the deputy to Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, then executive director of the C.I.A., notes that Rodriguez thought that "if the tapes ever got into [the] public domain… they would make us look terrible".
Three days after the tapes had been shredded, a CIA memorandum, since released under America's Freedom of Information Act, reported comments by Jose Rodriguez: "As Jose said, the heat from destroying [the tapes] is nothing compared to what it would be if the tapes got into the public domain - he said that out of context they would make us look terrible - it would be devastating to us.
Crappy people make us feel terrible and getting them out of our systems is like expelling a demon.
You would think listening to sad songs would make us feel terrible, but instead, we feel happy when Adele sings songs over her break-up.
Rodriguez told a top C.I.A. official that if the images were disclosed "out of context, they would make us look terrible; it would be 'devastating' to us," an e-mail said.
The flip side: Melatonin is suppressed by bright light, meaning that crossing time zones (and getting light exposure when we'd normally be sleeping) can really screw with our rhythm and, yes, make us feel terrible.
The things that make us feel terrible about ourselves, get in the way of feeling the answers we might otherwise receive from above.
