I like to read history and therefore I’m continually amazed when folks tell me something has never happened before. When I prove to them that yes, yes it has, they then try to convince me that it’s never been so bad. Wrong again. Historically, things have usually been much, much worse. More damage, more death, more suffering.
It isn’t hard to see why we believe everything is worse now than ever. It’s our 24-hour news cycle with its incessant need for a disaster at the top of every hour. The news team then proceeds to “cover”, in just a few minutes, issues that can take lifetimes to fully understand. But we’re all so saturated with information, we seldom dig deeper. We just accept that things are going downhill steadily. Many of my clients, in battling depression and anxiety, have given up on watching the news all together. It’s just too upsetting. And truly, there’s not much anyone can do about any of it, so why pile misery upon misery? (Except for the fact that misery, like sex, sells lots of commercial spots.) This brings up the perennial question of reality versus perception.
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