Dramas used to seem global. Now a broken washing machine is a global catastrophe.
CYNIC
Global dramas were just your excuse to ignore your own life. Now that your washing machine broke, you suddenly care about catastrophes? Please. You never gave a damn about the world until it affected your laundry schedule.
STOIC
Scale is a matter of perspective. What you call global is merely a change in the scope of your attention. The washing machine is not a catastrophe; it is a reminder that even the smallest disruption can reveal where your true attachments lie.
ABSURD
Yesterday you wept for continents, today you weep for a spin cycle. Tomorrow you will declare war on a sock. The universe, indifferent, responds by turning your underwear pink.