If you don't deal with the news you become the news

Though I believe in positive thinking and all the good it can bring I'm also a very practical and pragmatic person. In other words as I grew up women more believed in fairy tales and men tried to be ultimately practical even though this stoic practical strategy also might be the death of them eventually.

As I grew up I noticed how cold and calculating most men had to be to survive and it really turned my stomach. So, as I entered manhood I kept trying to be more idealistic and only as pragmatic as I absolutely had to be to survive anything. But, eventually I learned like all adults who survive long enough do that unless you catch problems while they are still small they can become big and wreck or destroy your life or others.

So, sooner or later everyone has to either become very cold and calculating or live with someone who is cold and calculating or no one survives at all.

Then, if you take it to the next level of adulthood, if adults don't take responsibility for the world around them in every way, soon their lives and the lives of all their friends and relatives go away.

The U.S. didn't jsut suddenly appear like a fairy tale out of thin air. Just look at every traffic signal in your city for instance. Likely 1 to 30 to 50 people died for every traffic signal you see. If you want to you can even go back through microfiche or the internet in Newspaper archives to see how many were injured or died at that crossing to make it first a stop sign and then a traffic signal. Anything good we have in the U.S. came from someone's sacrifice. And often it is many people's lives that were sacrificed to make this country. Some died as police or firemen. Some died as soldiers protecting and defending it. Some died championing better beliefs and political freedoms. But mostly, people died making this country as good as it has always been.

So, if you don't deal with local, state, Federal and World News, you tend to become the news as you lose everything you care about one by one. Sounds a lot like the last 5 years doesn't it?