To be fair I can empathize with their desire. They want a good and happy America and a good and happy world to live in and they are told that the reason they can’t have that is because of all of these crazy things, because our news and media empire entirely runs on human suffering, peppered with occasional feel good stories.
The pervasive sense of dread and misery?, anomia?, can’t think of the right word that you get when you interact with the news isn’t something that everyone can simply shrug off and go about their day like it’s nothing.
You would have to be a robot to not be affected by it.
Of course, this isn’t an excuse for them. The sane reaction to being constantly told bad things by a psychic vampire is to remove the psychic vampire from your life and not to act on what the psychic vampire has said.
I mean, when your crazy Aunt Linda starts ranting at Thanksgiving dinner about how they put poison in the salad dressing, you don’t throw out the salad dressing you tell Linda that if she doesn’t like the salad dressing she doesn’t have to eat it otherwise she needs to shut up and eat her turkey.
But you give crazy Aunt Linda 500 million a year and the ability to scream her insanity into 110 million people’s ears 24 hours a day and you get a world full of crazy people.
It’s always “slippery slope” that will lead to something terrible. Never something awful currently happening
To be fair I can empathize with their desire. They want a good and happy America and a good and happy world to live in and they are told that the reason they can’t have that is because of all of these crazy things, because our news and media empire entirely runs on human suffering, peppered with occasional feel good stories.
The pervasive sense of dread and misery?, anomia?, can’t think of the right word that you get when you interact with the news isn’t something that everyone can simply shrug off and go about their day like it’s nothing.
You would have to be a robot to not be affected by it.
Of course, this isn’t an excuse for them. The sane reaction to being constantly told bad things by a psychic vampire is to remove the psychic vampire from your life and not to act on what the psychic vampire has said.
I mean, when your crazy Aunt Linda starts ranting at Thanksgiving dinner about how they put poison in the salad dressing, you don’t throw out the salad dressing you tell Linda that if she doesn’t like the salad dressing she doesn’t have to eat it otherwise she needs to shut up and eat her turkey.
But you give crazy Aunt Linda 500 million a year and the ability to scream her insanity into 110 million people’s ears 24 hours a day and you get a world full of crazy people.