Here’s an editorial video about how FOX News and the Republican Party are making up thing to worry about. It’s by Rachael Maddow and is called Let Them Eat Fake.

After being afraid of razor blades in apples, needles in caddy bars and the “dangers” of role playing games I’ve decided that the news no longer has permission to make me afraid. It is the policy of many news outlets to be inflammatory and induce fear so they can sell advertising. (Wikipedia “Culture of Fear“)

I will not live in fear. The bad things on the news are newsworthy because they are unusually bad. The world is not getting worse.

Humans try to make the world a little bit better than in was before them. That’s been going on for 200,000 years. The world is not getting worse.

We hear about smaller problems from farther away. That’s a reasonable effect of improved safety and efficient communication. Today we can worry about a boy from 2000 miles away who might be floating away in a balloon that can’t lift him. The world is not getting worse.

This is not the first year that there have been crazy people, murder, rape, kidnapping or war. The rates are going down. Have you ever needed to jump into a longship or a canoe to kill and plunder the folks on the other side of a lake for some shiny objects and some genetic diversity? That’s because the world is not getting worse.

There are 6.8 billion people in the world today and we largely get along. Every time you find a terrible headline, try reading it with this sentence before it: “6.8 billion people were mostly nice to each other today and …”