> Positive news is categorized not just by content but by framing and prominence...
Just like news news.
Just because you have a terrible attitude on life composed of torturing yourself with extreme mischaracterizations of reality and denying yourself any reprieve, doesn't mean you have a firmer grasp on reality. If you can't handle the status quo, you have an illness.
It's one thing to live in a little bubble where you don't need to confront what's wrong in the world; it's another to avoid getting dragged into the culture war by a torrent of stories framed entirely to embitter.
> Yes, there are immigrant children in concentration camps on American soil...
No, the U.S. government isn't reoriented toward a goal of "gassing the kids". You need to take a chill pill.
You seem to have no trouble criticizing "positive news", and sure, some of it is just as delusional; but don't kid yourself and think for one second that it's any more insidious than your favourite extreme rage-bait nonsense, fueled by the far-stronger sharing impulse for angry news.
While the parent comment is getting downvotes, probably due to the somewhat accusatory form, the facts behind it are universally true: our civilization is improving. If you took several metrics and weighted them by people's concern, you would see a positive trend [1]. Any "good news" is a statement of the fact, and should be a duh moment to everybody.
Granted, we need the "bad news" too, as certain things still need fixing. However living with a negative impression of the world is living in denial.
Civilization has improved _so far_.
The underlying reason for that is the cheap and abundant energy source (fossil fuels). The bill for that is due and it will materialize by those metrics going down again.
Historical correction: no one is saying the US is gassing kids, that's confusion about what "concentration camp" means. Not every concentration camp is a Nazi death camp. Anytime you gather up the population in camps to keep control of them is a concentration camp (that's what the "concentration" part means). They were used by the British in the Boer War, by the Spanish in Cuba, and by the US in the Japanese internment.
The current US refugee camps may qualify, because the point is to end the previous policy of letting them free until their hearings - thus, concentration in the classic sense. On the other hand, there is a legitimate legal process for getting out eventually; in that sense they're more like ordinary prisons.
Just like news news.
Just because you have a terrible attitude on life composed of torturing yourself with extreme mischaracterizations of reality and denying yourself any reprieve, doesn't mean you have a firmer grasp on reality. If you can't handle the status quo, you have an illness.
It's one thing to live in a little bubble where you don't need to confront what's wrong in the world; it's another to avoid getting dragged into the culture war by a torrent of stories framed entirely to embitter.
> Yes, there are immigrant children in concentration camps on American soil...
No, the U.S. government isn't reoriented toward a goal of "gassing the kids". You need to take a chill pill.
You seem to have no trouble criticizing "positive news", and sure, some of it is just as delusional; but don't kid yourself and think for one second that it's any more insidious than your favourite extreme rage-bait nonsense, fueled by the far-stronger sharing impulse for angry news.