by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt. I always thought by the time we got to this stage just about everyone would realize what is happening. But instead, much of the population is sticking their heads in the sand. Of course the truth is that ignoring what is going on in the world isn’t going to make it go away. We are the Book of Revelation generation. God has told us history in advance, and the Bible has a tremendous amount to say about the days that we are living in right now. For example, nobody can deny that we are living at a time of “wars and rumors of wars”. In fact, thanks to social media, we live at a time when “rumors of wars” are circulating more rapidly than they ever have in all of human history. So much is happening all around us, and so much is about to happen. That makes this a very challenging time to be alive, but it is also a very exciting time to be alive.
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A lot of people can feel absolutely overwhelmed by all of the bad stuff that is constantly happening all around us, and as a result many of them just want to tune everything out. The other day, I was stunned to learn that a very large portion of the global population purposely tries to avoid the news…
The war in Ukraine, tensions in the Middle East, tariffs, inflation and so on and so forth. It sometimes feels like there’s no end to bad news, and, especially in the age of doom scrolling, that can take a toll on people’s mental wellbeing. As a consequence, more and more people actively try to avoid the news or at least ration their exposure to it.
As Statista’s Felix Richter reports, according to the Reuters Institute’s latest Digital News Report, an average of 40 percent of respondents from 48 countries included in the survey said that they sometimes or often actively avoid the news, a significant increase from 29 percent in 2017, when the question was first asked. As the following chart shows, selective news avoidance, as the Reuters Institute calls it, became significantly more widespread across all markets in recent years, with more than four in 10 respondents from the United Kingdom and the U.S. consciously reducing their news intake.
Read that second paragraph again.
We are talking about 40 percent of the population.
That is crazy.
Sticking your head in the sand may seem pleasant for a while.
But it isn’t going to make global events go away.
And it certainly isn’t going to make the Book of Revelation go away.
Eventually, global events will become so dramatic that it will literally be impossible to ignore them.
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