Ive been feeling battered, and I suspect many other news-readers have as well. Take a break, just follow local news if you must read news. Better yet -- read some books, work in the garden, play with children. Its been a rough week internationally, no doubt. But on a day-to-day level, the human population of this planet is healthier than it has ever been, more women have more rights than theyve ever had before, etc. and so on. Its easy for that signal to get lost in all the noise, but I think we have to think about this, deliberately, the same way we do about issues like child safety (understanding that while its terrifying to read of a child abduction, theyre actually incredibly rare, and your ten-year-old is perfectly capable of walking to the park by herself and playing for a few hours). Its so easy for our perspectives to get skewed when we spend too much time following the news.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:46:17 +0000
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