Avoid the news completely. The BBC and the newspapers are just as bad as any other source. Avoid talk shows, current affairs, news bulletins etc for at least a couple of months. If you can avoid TV all together, for a couple of months, so much the better.
If you watch a seventy second clip from the 2006 fictional film, V for Vendetta, it will give you a good indication of what the news is doing and why (search youtube for "00V for Vendetta-why they need us.avi" ).
The news is intended to adrenalize and to gas light.
As HL Mencken, put it, about 95 years ago:
"The aim of practical politics is to keep the population in a constant state of alarm, and hence clamorous to be lead to safety. This is achieved by an endless string of hobgoblins. Most of them imagined."
Your practical politicians are just being particularly needy and attention seeking at the present time.
If you watch a seventy second clip from the 2006 fictional film, V for Vendetta, it will give you a good indication of what the news is doing and why (search youtube for "00V for Vendetta-why they need us.avi" ).
The news is intended to adrenalize and to gas light.
As HL Mencken, put it, about 95 years ago:
"The aim of practical politics is to keep the population in a constant state of alarm, and hence clamorous to be lead to safety. This is achieved by an endless string of hobgoblins. Most of them imagined."
Your practical politicians are just being particularly needy and attention seeking at the present time.
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