To feel uneasy and scared the way the world is going.

[Maisyblue]

Aibu to feel so scared of international events, there seems to be so many awful wars going on, I know it's always been this way but the Middle East and the Ukraine are so highly volatile...I worry how it's all going to end. Are we on the road to something unimaginable. I know nobody really knows but can anyone reassure me that all this will just pass over just like wars have done in the past?

Yanbu

Some of the things on the news is so scary. I was saying to DH how lucky we are that we weren't born in one of the countries with all the drama and had to live there.

Yep - especially with that plane being shot down. Seeing John Snow's video, I'm starting to worry about what would happen if it were happening over here. I'm never one to get anxious about things like this, but lately, it's been on my mind.

That and the Islam movement - that scares me.

Vested economic interests will keeps lots of things pretty stable.

That and a general apathy/unwillingness to instigate anything on our doorstep.

People are bending over backwards to avoid antagonising Putin for example.

That doesn't mean that we shouldn't be doing more than we actually are, in a lot of cases. The 'I'm all right Jack' attitude while other countries are suffering dreadfully is rather grim.

You probably really only need to worry if you hear Tony Blair is offering an opinion.

I'm worried about the Ebola virus spreading to the UK too.

Be careful about believing all you read re the "Islam Movement". There is a lot of propaganda.

They want us to be scared so we won't realise what's actually going on.

What's that then Ophiotaurus? What's going on?

What is actually going on ophiotaurus ?

Does it involve lizard people?

Sadly it has always been there. It is the widening of our daily news coverage that has made the news grow. We travel further afield more regularly so places that used to be 'the other side of the world' are now only a couple of hundred pounds away. All seems much closer. We know so much more.

I am old enough to have lived with the nuclear/doomsday clock at 3 minutes to midnight and talk of it shortening. These days it has been updated to include modern threats and is at 5 minutes to midnight. So yes, scary times, but not the most in recent history.

But Norway Spruce, aren't all these sanctions antagonising him, also our meddling in Ukraines business?

I don't think they are really.

Gazprom is one of his trump cards, and Putin is in a position to not care overmuch what we say at the moment, as we clearly have the will do very little.

We are really pretty hands off in the Ukraine thing.

Nothing like that. I just think they use fear to control people.

www.alternet.org/media/10-brilliant-quotes-noam-chomsky-how-media-really-operates-america

I'm not denying these awful things are happening by the way. I think that the amount of depressing media we are shown is for a reason.