I'm a news junkie. There I've admitted I have a problem. That's step one, right?
The twenty-four hour news cycle was made for people like me. I wake up in the morning intending to meditate, but first I have to check in with a few media outlets to find out what happened while I was sleeping.
I've got to quit. The problems in the world have become overwhelming. AIDS and Alzheimer's, beheadings and Baghdad, cartels, drought, Ebola and education, Ferguson and the First Amendment, gay marriage and gun rights, homelessness and Hamas, indictments and Iraq, jihadists, K Street lobbyists and killer cops, Libya, Midwest and Middle East, nuclear waste, Obama, Putin and polarized politics, questionable ethics, riots and refugees, starvation and Supreme Court rulings, Texas politicians, Ukraine, violence and volcanoes, water pollution and war, X-rated celebrity behavior and xenophobia, zero tolerance.
A steady diet of this negative vibe is adding to the sense that the world is going to Hell in a handbasket. My good Baptist raising tells me that God is trying to tell us something. My education tells me that history is trying to tell us something. The weather seems to be hinting at the need for humanity to pay attention.
Maybe it's not too much information, maybe it's a failure to process it in a way that brings about solutions to the problems. Maybe our intentions aren't what they should be and our goals are misguided. Albert Einstein knew that doing the same things over and over again, expecting different results was the definition of insanity.
I think the world is ready for step two.
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