Will there always be a crisis ?

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First we had Covid, now there is a war in Ukraine, what is next ? I've been looking at the news again for any improvement, even though I've been telling myself not to because it would just heighten my anxiety level again and yet I still did and there seems to be less improvement, people are still rambling on about World War 3 or a nuclear war and I seem to think there are people out there who WANT a war and I know that sounds like a ridiculous thing to say. I've now told myself again to stop looking at the news and yet I'll probably at some point again look again to find out. I know people will say the world is a terrible place sometimes and things happen out of the blue sometimes that are out of our control but why have all these somewhat-apocalyptic scenarios happened now, first with a pandemic and now a war ?

24 hour news can't draw enough eyeballs unless we're constantly freaked out about something but they can't market it effectively if we're constantly freaked out about everything.

Of course people want a war. Humans are warlike and destructive by nature and it's something we sadly inherited by our "lower" relative, the chimpanzee. Chimps may look sweet and cuddly (and they are most of the time), but they share many of the same negative traits with humans, including terrorizing other tribes in a warlike fashion.

Its called "life".

Thats what life is. Just one crises after another.
Or ... to put it into just three words...

https://youtu.be/7REI-kBlyQ8

Yes, there will always be a crisis, somewhere.
Day to day life for most people is made up of a number of small crises.
Its how you react to the crisis which matters.
Catastrophising about it is the least helpful option.

Seems like it. Everyone was waiting for the day the government lifts all covid restrictions and covid becomes less deadly, and then we head straight into WW3. I think I prefer the covid business than all this.

Knowing Putin, he was probably behind covid, not to get people killed but to distract the world while he works on his evil plans and gives his nuclear weapons a little clean and make sure they're pointing in the right directions. He probably got China to release the virus from their precious lab. Clever f****r he is.

Should we all just drink our Kool Aid/Flavor Aid now, or what?

the second the crises go away for good, earth school is finished.

Honestly, probably. It's a big world after all, but not every crisis is going to affect you or other people reading this thread personally. If it happens in some far off, not so well known poor country, it could very well be just a small mention in news and won't affect you personally, unless you happen to have some friends there or something. For example, how many of you know anything about Rwandan genocide? I wasn't born until later that year and don't recall hearing about it before adulthood, but I don't think my mom or many others who were adults at the time would know a lot. When it's far and has a little to do with us, even a big crisis or tragedy tends to feel rather insignificant. Of course, in these times of the internet it's a lot easier to gain information about these things, but from what I've seen, most people won't bother if it doesn't have anything to do with them.

Because negativity bias is leveraged by the media to increase profits. It's done through clickbait headlines, sensationalism, and spin. Bad news gets more attention, more clicks, and leads to more revenue for publications.

"Nightcrawler" movie with Jake Gyllenhaal gives a glimpse why MSM goes from crisis to crisis. It's all for views and $$$.

Unfortunately LOTS of hew-mons want to blame each other & fight with each other instead of trying to actually work together to solve the world's many various problems. I'm really hoping that if we do end up having a nuclear World War 3, we'll completely wipe out all of the hew-mon species before we can reach other planets & start f#cking up the rest of the universe the way we did our home one. We really are Earth's biggest & worst parasites. That said, the hew-mon species has a lot of potential for good as well & I hope we can turn things around for the better. While I generally hope or the best with things, experience has taught me to expect the worst.

There's always crisis, from small to large, internal and/or external.

I focus on the ones I have some control over and are actually affecting me right now or in the near future, which will be keeping someone alive. Albeit, I get caught up in the crises from my past, which cause distress and suffering, because they made mental illness and disorder. They affect me now through anxiety/panic/depression/negative emotions. They've changed my behavior, hiding and always carrying knives with me, for example. They've changed me, my personality, into the person that lacks trust for humans, avoids others and doesn't have much of a self/ego. I'm kinda stuck in the past in many ways, because it makes you who you are.

I'm always expecting something bad to happen, so I just see the future as incoming pain, because that's how my past has mostly been.

Yes.

If nothing else in the crisis news cycle, it will be the climate crisis for the rest of our natural lives.

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