My husband found these crumpled and torn bits of newspaper from 1979 under a floorboard today.
The words that jumped out at me were ‘torture,’ ‘attack’ and ‘terrorists.’
It seems some things really don’t change, unfortunately.
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Yes, true!!!
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Crazily enough the world was actually safer. Yet still used those words.
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Maybe it’s our bias towards negativity that’s the issue? Fear sells, I suppose.
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That it does!
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Yes nothing changes. Sadly……
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It does make me sad. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a newspaper dedicated to reporting all the good news from all over the world?
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There’s something wired wrong about humans Rae. We seem attracted to things going wrong, (with other people). Gotta have my daily fix of other people disaster. The papers are full of it. It’s what makes people buy them. A paper with only good things wouldn’t last.
Seems we need our daily fix of other people’s troubles. I’m sure there’s a psychological reason for this but I’m not a psychologist……
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It’s sad but true Don, bad news sells.
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Why does mankind struggle so much to learn from mistakes and change their behaviour. Just be kind ….or is that too simplistic. ?
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I could be wrong, but I think we get more of what we focus on…so if we shifted the dominant narrative to focus on all that is good in the world, then there would be more good feeling and even more good would occur…or is that too optimistic?
It must be something-istic!
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speaking as somebody who lives in Israel, you can imagine where my eye went…
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I can indeed David. It saddens me that there has been conflict in Israel for so long. My parents took me and my brother to visit Jerusalem when we were small, I remember the wailing wall clearly and I don’t remember much from my childhood so it must have made an impression.
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