Are you depressed by the state of affairs in the world?

Geezerette said:
I am bothered by a lot of things in the news. Was sad when the JFK era optimism went down the tubes. Bothered about how many American and Allied lives were lost and ruined in Iraq and Afgh and we still lost the war there. Bothered by how much corruption in government and business in our own country, let alone abroad. Bothered that the civilized Western World including America had been pouring untold billions of $ and human 7 material resources into the African countries for well over a century, and it just gets absorbed without making the least bit of difference. Bothered by the extreme viciousness of fanatic muslim males and their seemingly endless supply of resources.
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Well said.

I don't feel depressed by the state of the world as I am increasingly feeling angry about it and wish I could do more to change things.
 

I try to remember that "we live in the best of times and we live in the worst of times" just as we always have...
 
I find listening to the news very depressing. The world is a mess! I'd like to just cut out listening to it sometimes, but my DH is very involved in UK politics and wants to know everything that is going on, plus whatever is going on in the world.
 

I'm with Ralphy on this one. Too much news coming at us means we are kept in a fearful mindset.Things are no worse then they ever were, and in lots of ways, better.It's just that we are well informed now [too informed.]
 
And so many goofy conspiracy theories.. all of which are nonsense and have been disproven.. yet some "sources" ie FOX news keeps repeating them over and over.. and eventually people believe them. It seems President Obama has awoken all the loonies.
 
QuickSilver said:
And so many goofy conspiracy theories.. all of which are nonsense and have been disproven.. yet some "sources" ie FOX news keeps repeating them over and over.. and eventually people believe them. It seems President Obama has awoken all the loonies.
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Agree!
 
I don't dwell a lot on anything I don't believe I can change Ralphy, but I do think about the children in our world. I don't have any of my own, but I have many friends with kids and grandkids so I have concern, not literal depression.

Regarding the world in general, I have sadness for sure, but once in awhile I meet people, hear something, see something, that makes me smile and just be glad to be alive, no matter the wreckage going on in "out there".
 
QuickSilver said:
And so many goofy conspiracy theories.. all of which are nonsense and have been disproven.. yet some "sources" ie FOX news keeps repeating them over and over.. and eventually people believe them. It seems President Obama has awoken all the loonies.
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Can you repeat some of those wrong theories. I have no idea what you are talking of.
 
Kitties said:
I don't think humans are every going to stop this, I'll just say, stuff. When have we not been killing each other some place I wonder?

I know this is centered, but I sure wish for rain in California.
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We (in South Coast Oregon) are due for rain off that hurricane. At least that's what my sister saw reported. Maybe you guys will get some of it, hopefully.
 
QuickSilver said:
And so many goofy conspiracy theories.. all of which are nonsense and have been disproven.. yet some "sources" ie FOX news keeps repeating them over and over.. and eventually people believe them. It seems President Obama has awoken all the loonies.
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No television station tells all the facts, and no station gets them all right (their made up of humans, finite, imperfect humans). People have their choices in who has the best reports, and they have a right to that, thank goodness. Certain people in history have tried to "force" others to see things their way, and I do mean force, but no one can force a mind, short of true, brain-washing, or drugs I suppose.

Even the narrow-minded that won't even consider "hearing" another side has the right to be narrow-minded, and I for one would fight to preserve that right as well.
 
Thank you for that note nwlady. That really does make sense. FOX NEWS is only one of the stations I watch for news. FOX NEWS does have a range of programs that vary from open, to left or right, in their leaning. Which is why I watch them They seem to be, to me, more centered than many of the other channels that go really far left for some or far right for others.
 

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