Headlines Versus the Experience of Living in the World

Yes, crime is surging in some areas.  
Yes, sex education has gone off the mainstream path in certain places.
Yes, some from the extreme right and left could plausibly be labeled anti-democratic.
Yes, the climate is changing.
Yes, many have died from complications associated with COVID.  
Yes, inflation is up. 

But what has been your personal experience?

The World is trying to anger you and make you afraid. It does so because its currency is attention, and the more angry and afraid you are, the more attention you give it. 

Attention-grabbing headlines aren’t about awareness or public service. They’re about sales.
Attention-grabbing headlines aren’t meant to help you. They’re meant to make you crazy. 
Attention-grabbing headlines don’t solve problems. They create more problems. 

You probably have personally experienced one or more of the issues the headlines scream about. But has a headline ever helped you deal with it?

Personal experience isn’t everything when it comes to solving big problems, but it sure can help when deciding how to spend one’s limited budget of worry.