Posted by Dinah on July 6, 2016, at 22:49:00
In reply to Re: Emotional reactions to news » baseball55, posted by Tabitha on June 13, 2016, at 23:19:03
I think I was way more likely to think the world was doomed when I was younger. After a while all the scares kind of make me detached. Somehow we muddle through. New hotspots break out. But I'd have never thought to see peace in Ireland or so much progress in Lebanon. We *did* make it through the cold war. There is always a disease or war that is supposed to end mankind, yet diseases are being fought and people eventually get worn out from war. In so many ways, things are better now than they ever were.
I know that's likely overly sanguine, and I might feel differently if I lived through WW2.
But the media seems to blow everything up into the newest disaster of disaster, and eventually you have to wonder if it's just good for their business.
Which doesn't stop me obsessively following the election and enriching their coffers...
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