Posted by Tabitha on June 13, 2016, at 23:19:03
In reply to Re: Emotional reactions to news » Tabitha, posted by baseball55 on June 13, 2016, at 18:15:16
> I know what you mean about how depressing the news can be. For me, I feel like I live in a world where I don't understand half (at least) the people in it. I just don't get them at all. I get sick of reading about and hearing about all the violence and craziness, both here and abroad. A lot of foreign news just depresses me and makes me feel helpless. Many years ago, I would tune out whenever the topic of Northern Ireland and the IRA came on Then it was Serbia and Croatia and all that craziness. Now I tune out to ISIS and Syria. I don't get it and I don't want to think about it or feel responsible for it.
Yes, the foreign news is even more violent. It makes me think human civilization is really fragile, and I'm just fortunate to live in a place where there isn't overt warfare and social breakdown (yet). I'm not sure if that's a true picture or a distortion. Like, if I could see everyone on earth at once, how many people would be living peacefully and how many would be killing and preying on each other? What about through history? How much violence happens to or is done by people on average? Will there ever be less violence?
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