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This is precisely why I had asked, in a previous post, ifI wouldn’t necessarily say there are more “evil” people now as much as I would say the nicer people are more withdrawn.
With social media at an all time high and literally everything that’s wrong with America being blasted on the news and radio all the time, people are starting to lose faith in humanity and in others. I remember when I was a child and whole streets knew eachother and talking to your neighbors was a common thing. Now, it seems as though people don’t even trust their own neighbors. We just don’t see the good in the world anymore because people are drawn to the bad and it’s caused the nice ones to stop helping or being as social as they used to.
the OP watched the news on a regular basis.
I avoid the news as much as I can, and the world is a
much nicer place when I see it through my own eyes
rather than the eyes handed to me by the press.
Even on social media like Facebook, if the posting-
habits of any of my contacts start making my news-feed
look more like a news-paper, I un-follow them. I can't
prove most of the stuff that's being broadcast, so
why let it mess with my head and pull my heart-strings
as though I'm a first-hand eyewitness to all of it when I
can save my energies for that which really does
require my immediate attention right where I'm at?
Heck, there's even a bible verse that, when looked at a
certain way, seems to support how one's outlook on life
is improved when "the news" (glorified gossip, if you ask
me) is avoided:
"He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed,
and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil; he will dwell
on the heights..." Isaiah 33:15-16
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