The news uses our weakness to find a proper perspective on the state of the country to fuel our fears.
In the visual arts, perspective is the ability to see things in their true place: things farther away appear smaller and things closer appear larger. It took a long time for painters to learn how to achieve perspective on canvas, which shows that achieving it in other areas of life may be just as difficult and time-consuming.
Having a perspective on the news is a kind of ability that allows us to experience a shocking event in the present.
If we compare humanity in the whole history, in this way we can understand how scary and worthy of attention such an event can be.
Considering the principle of perspective, despite what the news shows, we realize that it is less of a completely new issue, less of a really amazing and really horrible issue.
We have survived a similar situation many times in the last century, and even the prediction of the worst scenarios is that we will simply return to the standard of living a few decades ago, when living was still possible. New bird flus may disrupt international travel and may not be countered by known drugs for a while, but it will be controlled.
Our capacity for peace ultimately depends on our way of thinking: many things naturally depress us while none are important); Changes happen gradually (but life is not short either); Most people are neither very good nor very evil (and that includes us); Mankind has been faced with various crises one after another and yet has continued to survive. If we can keep these very clear but extremely elusive thoughts alive in our minds, we will be less afraid and afraid.
It is not surprising that news organizations are not interested in this kind of restrained attitude, because they all have purely commercial motives that lead them to overemphasize our vulnerability. Nature news organizations want to keep their audience in a state of excitement, panic, and chaos most of the time – it’s our job to try to maintain our stamina and resilience.
Whenever the news isn’t terrifying us, it’s infuriating us. The ability to post comments online at the end of news segments shows an unimaginable level of anger among the majority of the public. Due to these comments, most of us are often subject to anger and agitation.
Alan Dobatan/ News/Phoenix Publishing
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