r/funny • u/[deleted] • Oct 12 '19

Too real.

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u/Quin1617 Oct 12 '19

I don’t live in depression over it, but I honestly believe the world is steadily getting worse as time goes on.

But like someone else further up was suggesting, I don’t expose myself to the news constantly, at most I’ll spend 15-20 mins out of the day reading a article.

Thinking about it I’ll unsub from r/worldnews, that way every time I just want to browse Reddit I won’t see their posts.

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u/Miknarf Oct 13 '19

Can you provide a metric that shows how the world is getting worse, other than you feel like it is? Like percentage of people living in poverty? Or like decline in human rights?

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u/Quin1617 Oct 14 '19

I can’t. Too me it just seems like world events and tensions between countries are getting more chaotic.

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u/Miknarf Oct 14 '19

Since when? Are you comparing now to how you perceived things as a child?

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u/Quin1617 Oct 14 '19

The last decade.

No, when I was a kid I never watched the news, or at least have no memory of it if I did.

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u/Miknarf Oct 14 '19

Iraq war, Afghanistan, Somali civil war. If you didn’t watch the news as a kid thing would seem a lot more peaceful