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Congrats for gaining that bit of insight, and yes, I agree that's definitely what's been going on. Bad things happen, as they always have, now we just hear about all of it instantly. We are not equipped to rationally analyze the risks, we vastly overestimate the odds of something happening to us when it's something that sounds scary and dramatic, unfamiliar.
That's a side effect of free and fast flow of information. The commercial media with their clickbait headlines are surely not making things better. Still, even with the downsides I'm all for it though, ignorance may be bliss but the more informed we are, the better off everyone will be in the end. This age of information is still very new and immature, barely a generation old, things will get better I promise. It is the older generations that are freaking out, it's them that are not accustomed to hearing about these events. Millennials are already quite accustomed to this world, which is getting safer in almost every conceivable way every year, not more dangerous. There's less crime, less wars, less accidents. Don't panic.
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