Let’s get one thing straight: the news isn’t there to inform you. It’s there to own you.
Every headline is engineered like a psychological weapon. Fear sells, and crisis is currency. You’re not consuming news, you’re being consumed by it. You’re not more informed; you’re more influenced. And not by truth, but by narrative. Manufactured panic. Manufactured outrage. Manufactured consent.
Terror attacks, climate hysteria, economic doom, war-mongering, social unrest, your emotional bandwidth is hijacked every day by things you can’t control. Your life shrinks to the size of the headlines. And you think knowing what happened in Gaza, or what some World Health Organization bureaucrat is whining about, is important?
No. What’s important is that you’ve let your will be broken by a screen.
Turn It Off, Or It Will Turn You Into a Coward
If you want to stop living in fear, the answer isn’t another opinion piece. The answer isn’t even hope. The answer is action.
And step one is brutally simple: stop watching the news.
Yes, stop.
Not cut down. Not “stay informed in moderation.” Not “follow better sources.”
Stop.
Cold turkey.
Rip the IV out of your arm. The news is the fear drug. You don't “stay informed.” You stay indoctrinated. You stay distracted. You stay small.
You think you're being a good citizen by keeping up. You're not. You're being a trained animal, jumping at every global crisis while your own life, your own town, your own body, your own purpose goes neglected.
What to Do Instead? Rebuild Your World
Let the world burn on someone else’s screen. You’ve got work to do.
Start with your body. Get strong. Fear hates strength.
Then your mind. Read old books. Real books. Not “current events.” Plato never needed a push notification.
Then your surroundings. Build habits. Fix your home. Walk your streets. Meet your neighbors. That’s your world. Own it.
Then build your tribe. People who aren't addicted to anxiety. People who build. Talk real. Live real. Laugh like a free man, not a whipped dog waiting for the next news cycle to crush your spirit.
The World Is Not Ending—Your Courage Is
The world has always had chaos. Always. The difference is that for the first time in history, everyone is being forced to stare at it every second of every day.
And guess what? Most of it isn’t your problem. And the parts that are your problem? You won’t fix them by doom-scrolling.
What you can fix is your mind. Your courage. Your discipline. Your life.
So if you want to stop living in fear of world events, then stop living in world events.
Smash the screen. Build your life. Fight like a man. And never, ever, bow to fear again.
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