Valin Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 The Daily Wire Sep 23, 2018 Does America have an addiction to outrage? Glenn Beck offers his insights, talks about his journey from CNN to Fox News and beyond, and how hearing "We're all drunks in this room" changed his life forever, on this episode of The Sunday Special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 Related........... Why You Should Stop Reading the News and Start Reading Seneca and Epictetus Catastrophe overload? Read philosophers and poetry instead of headlines. Rachel Hadas Saturday, September 22, 2018 For almost two years now, Americans have been confronted daily by ominous tidings. We are living through stressful times. Reading the news feels awful; ignoring it doesn’t feel right either. Psychologist Terri Apter recently wrote about the “phenomenon in human behavior sometimes described as ‘the hive switch,’” where "catastrophic events eliminate selfishness, conflict and competitiveness, rendering humans as co-operative as ultra-social bees.” But if hurricanes, earthquakes or volcanoes trigger the hive switch, does this principle hold for man-made catastrophes? What about the immigration policy that has been separating children from their parents? School shootings, suicides, ecological disaster? What about the flood of frightening and infuriating news that splashes against us daily? (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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