Because these people maybe want some attention? And we (not you, us specifically), weirdly, have attention to spare.
It is the big luck. To have enough leftovers to be the hard-cored spectator in this situation, while it is anyways gripping you by at least some kind of organ.

In this case just looking is a lot more than any form of searching for meanings or context.
Everything can already be found in the turns of the visual.
Can you try to see a situation by writing down all of the physical equations involved?

In a way, I know what I’m seeing, it is just happening very much right now in front of my own eyes. But I
don’t know it by light but by the shape that is carved there by the object. By the logic of its matter.

If something has your attention in a big way it will:
A) Give a sense of calm about medium danger

Like if you chip off one layer of language leaving it with no sense.

It does go all the way through.
She’s a lot of fun

I hope she doesn’t die.

It does go all the way through.

She’s a lot of fun

I hope she doesn’t die.