Do we self scare-monger?

[Scythe13]

I agree that it's important to know what's going on. At the same time, it's just as important to put it into perspective in your day to day life.

Take the city-factor. There is so much scare mongering and focusing on the bad things that we miss out on so much more. The news doesn't focus on the good things and over hypes the bad things. THERE ARE 5 MILLION BULGARIANS WAITING TO GET INTO THE UK!!! As true as that might be, that could also be totally full of bollocks. Think about it. 50% of a country's population will up and leave their homeland? Land will become so cheap over there, it would be so easy to become land rich and self sufficient, so many will just stay put.

We focus on news of the unrecent-past. It's been over a decade since 9/11. It was 2 years ago that the London riots happened. Yet some preppers act like it's happening daily.

Does that make sense, or am I just overly optimistic?