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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 6711106" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>Avoiding looking at the news is something I have found very beneficial. I cannot take on everybody's problems and as you say whats the point of worrying about being nuked when there is nothing we can do about it at our level. To have such doom and gloom drummed into us on a daily basis is unhelpful. In fact nuclear apocalypse was drummed into us all the way through school which wasn't a very cheerful backdrop to daily life.</p><p></p><p>I also find some TV soap operas and dramas exceedingly depressing. Maybe I overthink them but to be fed a daily diet of scenarios of how your life could go horribly wrong does nothing for morale. We even have a Saturday night drama here based on life in an accident and emergency ward where all sorts of trauma and personal tragedy is acted out in detail. I just don't get it. It will be soon enough to deal with such a scenario if it ever actually happens. I don't need to be reminded of what can go wrong every Saturday night. We never see somebody harvesting a field of wheat on Saturday night with everything going well. If we do ever see such a thing on TV they always have to have a dig about how we are destroying the planet or something. Well at our level we are trying our best. To be constantly undermined and criticised can be extremely wearing and sap confidence.</p><p></p><p>Hence, while I keep an eye open to what's going on the world around me and am open to new ideas, I mostly now ignore "mainstream " media. And I feel better for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 6711106, member: 2119"] Avoiding looking at the news is something I have found very beneficial. I cannot take on everybody's problems and as you say whats the point of worrying about being nuked when there is nothing we can do about it at our level. To have such doom and gloom drummed into us on a daily basis is unhelpful. In fact nuclear apocalypse was drummed into us all the way through school which wasn't a very cheerful backdrop to daily life. I also find some TV soap operas and dramas exceedingly depressing. Maybe I overthink them but to be fed a daily diet of scenarios of how your life could go horribly wrong does nothing for morale. We even have a Saturday night drama here based on life in an accident and emergency ward where all sorts of trauma and personal tragedy is acted out in detail. I just don't get it. It will be soon enough to deal with such a scenario if it ever actually happens. I don't need to be reminded of what can go wrong every Saturday night. We never see somebody harvesting a field of wheat on Saturday night with everything going well. If we do ever see such a thing on TV they always have to have a dig about how we are destroying the planet or something. Well at our level we are trying our best. To be constantly undermined and criticised can be extremely wearing and sap confidence. Hence, while I keep an eye open to what's going on the world around me and am open to new ideas, I mostly now ignore "mainstream " media. And I feel better for it. [/QUOTE]
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