The news is going to kill us

You know, I haven't posted in a long while. I've been too freaked out to post. EVERYTHING IS WRONG. You can't get over one thing before something else happens. Whether it's earthquakes, oil spills, the burning hot world, killer mosquitoes, countrywide flooding, trapped miners, or gigantic hurricanes coming to your house, the average person does not have a moment anymore to call down. I personally can't take it anymore.

I live on the east coast and right now they're telling us all to have an evacuation plan for Hurricane Earl. THE WHOLE EAST COAST. Where the hell is the whole east coast supposed to go? Anyway, I don't have a car so I guess I'll just have to wade it out. Not funny really. But the point is they're panicking us because of their failures with Katrina. Katrina was such a problem because of where it hit. New Orleans is below sea level. I don't know how many places on the east coast are below sea level but it's not everyone. Are the other places that got hit by Katrina still bad off? I don't know they don't say. But they did a whole week on Katrina on CNN because they can't get over it. New Orleans looked a lot better off mentally than the media did.

The media is our problem. They keep freaking everyone out about everything. I don't know why. I don't know how much power they think people have over things. They want to keep us focused on these issues, but for what? We can't do anything about them. Future disasters are going to affect people too. That just can't be helped. But this constant panic making people think they're responsible for fixing everything and making sure it never happens again. They've got people in a mental vice. It's too much. It's been too much. And they're not going to stop.

The one thing I'm absolutely sure they did get people to do is to create this wretched economy. It was their panic that they spread to normal people that got people to cash in their investments and close their accounts that started us on this tumble. You can blame the housing crash all you want but that was one of the things that really got it rolling. And this was all after it started going downhill the day after the election that made George W. Bush president. People thought the salad days were gone when Gore didn't make it, they panicked, and that's when the stock market started diving. Then after 9/11, and don't we all remember how very much the media taught us to panic that day, it was pretty much a done deal, starting with the airline industry.

They're still doing it. They still can't shut up. They keep spreading the fear and honestly, I kinda think it's too late now. How can we possible get our minds back from these fear mongers?