Monday, January 07, 2008
"Worst-case thinking"
It's funny how we perceive our well-being.
Do you think the media could have something to do with it?
I do...
Do you think the media could have something to do with it?
I do...
On his website "Spiked", Frank Furedi summarizes:
"Events over the past 12 months suggest that what we think and how we think influences how we experience our reality. Compared with the past, people living in most parts of the world today experience less pain, debilitating disease and death than ever before. We are far better placed to deal with the outbreak of new diseases or unexpected weather incidents than we were even 20 or 30 years ago. And yet we continually fear the worst.
Worst-case thinking, the principal legacy of 2007, will most likely thrive in the years ahead. That is unless we can rediscover a sense of purpose in what it means to be human."
