A good friend also refers to a “fear machine” in the media. Joe Martino calls it fear porn. News has always been a beat down at times but with cable news it’s a 24/7 assault on the senses.
The format is deadly: they don’t just tell you what HAS happened. They scare the crap out of you with what might happen, hasn’t happened, will never happen but might come knocking at your door. It is an onslaught of what ifs.
Why do we watch it? We want to know “what’s going on”.
What about what is happening all around us before we turn on the media? What about trees growing, birds eating from a feeder or our cat coming up to snuggle? We have all but forgotten our connection to the natural world into which we were born, and which apparently was here before we arrived....<<<Read More>>>...