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How do I cope? I focus on trying to make a positive difference even if it's only asmall one.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
I get my news via print rather than television. This helps me ignore the more sensationalized stories, or local stories that don't really impact anything. Don't get me wrong, I feel bad when bad things happen to people, but I don't think reading and watching shows about it really serves much of a purpose.
Things aren't any worse now than they have been in the past. The news isn't any scarier or more disturbing than it was 20 years ago. If it bothers you so much, take a break from it for awhile. Your mental health will be better for it.




lol I've been less paranoid after switching to the interwebs news from cable 24hr.
Pay attention to what groups you read. Some are more depressing that others, namely anything left-wing.![]()





has the news EVER been peaches and creme?? Come on! News has always been depressing. That's what people find interesting.
I watch the o riely factor.




I'd be depressed reading those too.
You have to put aside the sensationalism.
Another thing is read counter-views (the right-side lol).
Energy crisis. Gas prices. Tanking economy. Environment going kaput. Nonsense.
As to the first two, you are going to get 'oil companies are evil' nonsense.
Global warmiing, etc.. GAWD. A natural cycle. Not man made. Not man changeable. But how else do you expect the socialist policies to get into law when 'we' vote them down. If you weren't around, in the 70's/ 80's it was Global Cooling.
Don't take it all so serious.




In some ways, it was actually worse decades ago. During the Vietnam war network television would show footage of troops in the trenches and soldiers being brought home in coffins.
The sensationalism is still there, but not more information necessarily.
I like to get different POV's, including foreign media like "The Guardian" a great British newspaper. Getting different perspectives helps.
And I'm also among those who try to do something to make a situation better if I can.
Case in point: CNN last year ran a story about a little Iraqi boy that was burned alive by insurgents. He lived, but was horribly burned and needs many surgeries.
They ran information for the Children's Burn Foundation and right away I logged on and donated $50 for the little boy, plus have a standing monthly contribution with them.
I was horribly upset about this little boy, but although I can't take his pain away, I was happy to have contributed to his surgeries in the US and hopefully making his life better.
"She has written so well, and marvellously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer...But this girl, who is to my knowledge very unpleasant and we might even say a high-grade bitch, can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers"
Ernest Hemingway on writer, aviation pioneer and horse trainer Beryl Markham
I remind myself of a few things:
Scary bad news sells, and news companies like to make money so present what sells.
I think technology allows us to get news instantly from around the world, mostly bad news because it sells, but for the most part people actually do live better then they did in the past.
Since nobody believes me about that, I suggest the following. I bet not one of us here has what it takes to live without our technology. And no, driving to Burning Man for a few days doesn't count. For a few weeks, take away your phone, computer, printed books and reading materials gone, tooth brush, floss, modern clothing, deodorant, fresh running water, no packaged food allowed, no sterilized or preserved food allowed (if you get sick, suck it up and suffer old fashion style), no AC or heating allowed, no mechanical vehicles, if you get sick go find sticks and weeds and don't even think of seeing a doctor. Break a leg? Set it yourself without anesthesia. If you have a tooth problem in the coming decade, forget about seeing a dentist and getting x-rays... pull it or live with it.
Actually my list is 10x longer...
in the Disney films living without all of that is so amazing, sitting in padded rocker, munching on popcorn, in an air conditioned theater, listening to the wonder of nature in THX... nice.
But I really do think we are pretty clueless about how good we have it.
Don't watch TV news. Read foreign source news online instead. I like CBC and BBC. Pravda is fun, it is like reading Weekly World News.
US TV news is designed to freak you out. They lie or tell half truths an awful lot, and then do retractions at like 4am real fast in those tickers on the bottom.
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Strawman!
It's not all or nothing (as implied by an extreme of nobody knew how to make fire, which obviously they have for a long time).
But on a big gray scale, we live in fact very well as compared with previous points in history.
I'm 100% sure the fact is people are mostly ignorant of how good they have it. Talk is cheap yet here you are too, on your modern day computer taking advantage of the technology. I bet you couldn't give it up unless forced.
Imagine what it would be like to rewind history a hundred years let alone a few hundred, or even a few thousand. If I just set us back 100 years, people today would miss several hundreds or thousands of inventions they have come to depend on including:
Cell phones
Computers
Air travel
Pretty much all of medicine and modern surgery
Sterile foods
Vaccinations
Cheap safe Birth Control
Dental care
Television
I could go on...
The fact that people so easily discount all of this is just evidence of how ignorant they are about how good they have it.
That kind of scares me actually how thankless we are as a people.





i wish the op wasn't deleted.
^^I was agreeing with you, Xdamage. Did you also know that human IQ is also going up with every new generation? Stuff that only the most advanced mathematicians could truly understand 400 years ago is required learning for many University degrees today.
Yep our tools are better because we are smarter as species. That doesn't mean that stuff doesn't really suck for some people even with all those modern advances. It still sucks to be poor, no mater how advanced computer technology gets.
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i really wish i understood this thread but brodie keeps deleting everything.





Why did you delete everything?
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