Fear …
I get the impression that the main aim of the media is to scare us into submission.
16 knife murders in London is horrific, but it is scarcely a threat to Civilisation. There are, what, 7 million people in London and 16 teenagers killed? I bet there are nearly that many per day in LA or New York but the media present the story as if we are all about to be knifed.
Then on Sunday, The Observer, ran a piece on the 99 British Servicemen killed in Afghanistan. Tragic, again, but when you read the stories, one was murdered and then the killer committed suicide. Hardly an indictment of military ineptitude. And then 100 killed pales into some comparison when you consider the other news story of a mass grave from WWI being excavated and that contains the probable remains of 400 or so troops killed in a single day.
The best thing we can do is live life to the full, aware of the risks we face but delighting in life and possibility rather than fearing death and limiting ourselves and our experiences.
Living without fear is living, living with fear is like dying.
Me, I’m living …