A Guide Against Fearmongering

Details On A War Nobody Wants

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Why We’re Surrounded By Negativity and Fearmongering?

3. Survival Instincts

4. The Inevitability of Crisis

5. How To Tackle Fearmongering

6. A Silver Lining

7. Concluding Remarks

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Introduction

My brother came home yesterday, wondering when we were going to be marching to war with Russia due to numerous articles that were released yesterday in the UK. I’m not going to link them, the fear they spread causes enough damage.  

I’ve felt like this before. We’re surrounded by negativity and fearmongering, and sometimes, it’s going to get to us. Fear can very easily find us with the wide array of information surrounding us every day. When it's events out of our control, it can feel suffocating.

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I was going to write about exciting innovative battery companies today. I decided I’d much rather discuss the current narrative in the UK regarding conscription for a war with Russia that nobody wants, and the global elites who are marching us down a blood-soaked path nobody wants to walk down. This naturally incites fear, but it also makes me angry. Angry at the media who published it. Angry at the politician who said it. Angry that we give stories like this so much attention. When I don’t particularly know how to process things, I write in an attempt to clear my mind and create some lessons that I will hopefully make clear to myself as I write. Hence that is what I shall do.

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Why We’re Surrounded By Negativity and Fearmongering?

Firstly, why are we surrounded by news stories like this? Negativity sells. Look online. Check the mainstream media. If you don’t control your experience online, it controls you. Those small digital worlds that we hold in our hands, that we’re so attached to are littered with it. A war here, a pandemic there. It’s an endless barrage that makes anybody want to hide in a corner and not peek out until the coast is clear. But if all we consume is their news, the coast is never clear.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t fight against injustice. I’m saying the opposite. We have to educate ourselves and raise awareness and these stories need to be covered. But we can control how we choose to consume them. This requires some conscious thought.