Posted on 10/26/2023 11:04:58 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
t’s easy to believe that the world is falling apart while watching the news. Before panicking, it may be worth stepping back to get some perspective.
Media-driven fear demoralizes us — particularly when we’re young — and engenders terrible political decisions by crippling our ability to do better....
It is understandable and even necessary that the media spotlights today’s conflicts. But this can make us believe that we’re living through unprecedented violence ... The world has, in fact, become much more peaceful...
This is of course little consolation to those living in conflict zones. But the emotional tone has dramatically and consistently become more negative. Negativity sells, but it informs badly...
The same pattern characterizes climate change reporting. A pervasive and false apocalyptic narrative draws together every negative event — ignoring the bigger picture almost entirely. Last summer, for example, forest fires made headlines, but coverage largely failed to mention that the annual burned global area has been declining for decades, reaching the lowest level ever last year...
The data show what we all fundamentally know: the world has improved dramatically. Life expectancy has more than doubled since 1900. Two centuries ago, almost everyone was illiterate. Now, almost everyone can read. In 1820, nearly 90 per cent of people lived in extreme poverty. Now it’s less than 10 per cent...
The constant barrage of negative stories may lead us to imagine that our forward progress is about to end. However, the evidence at hand does not support this conclusion...
Yet fear pushes many to demand an inefficient diversion of hundreds of trillions of dollars to steer the global economy abruptly towards zero carbon emissions...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
stay positive, and don't fall for the fear-mongering!
The business of the media, particularly the broadcast media, is entertainment and not truth. As a result, they have to be very negative in order to keep people with short attention spans fixed on the news.
JUST SAY NO TO WAR.
If the media were profit oriented, the above premise would be true. We have seen, again and again, and again, the first priority of the legacy media is control of the narrative, and remaking society in the way they wish.
Maybe it demoralizes Canadians, Doctor Peterson.
But to a Jingoist Patriot in the USA, it just makes us mad and ready to fight. Remember, 150 Million citizens here own firearms.
A lot of the darkness comes from the feminization of the news, the women’s section of the newspaper has taken over the news, and we get constant stories about women’s concerns, worries, and interests reported from an emotional point of view and with emotional elements dominating the stories.
Combined with the powerlessness of the Americans to fix problems because the male voter is outnumbered and pushed out of the loop, so nothing is fixable, it is just a permanent reporting of the scary, the bad, the upcoming scary, the upcoming bad, the possible scary, the possible bad.
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No it’s worse than being reported..My Bible details that..
Thankfully I don’t religiously watch The News.
I live on the beach in FL, it’s glorious with all the storms going to Mexico, lol
I luv this new climate! lololololol
80 degrees air, water 80 degrees, I can’t get enough, beer and pompano on the Gulf, suck it rust best shitholers
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Too soon?
“JUST SAY NO TO WAR.”
What are you, some kind of Right-Wing EXTREMIST. What’s the point of being in government if you don’t want World War 3?
Peace is Crazy 😜 talk 😂
If you are overly fearful move to a small community and go to the largest churches. People stand together and know what’s going on.
Sorry, the USA and the world is f up. Stolen elections have dire consequences.
I feel better already!
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