There's a lot of negative stuff out there!

Bad news makes good news. Bad news sells. Crimes and unfortunate accidents get lots of air time. It seems we receive news in a ratio of 5 doses of bad news for each dose of good news.

The reality TV craze shows us an unending string of personal difficulty: interventions, biggest losers, mental illness, fallen celebrities, and workplace dysfunction. As we are exposed to all these poor folks, those less fortunates, we receive regular breaks in the form of TV commercials. The TV commercials show us many new remedies for regular aches and pains and also many new physical and mental diseases we have never heard of. Some of the remedy side-effects described in these commercials are mind-numbing. And, the rule seems to be 'no statement of a long list of nasty side effects then call your doctor'. In effect, we are being trained to contact our doctors to request medications for ailments that people choose not to name on TV. Negative stuff!

Video games and movies, thanks to exceptional special effects and relaxed regulation, are delivering buckets full of violence, blood, & gore.

We live in a continuous bombardment of readily-available information.

And, those who deliver that bombardment make sure it contains a very heavy dose of negative stuff.

Over time, the assault of the Negative Mob affects us...some more than others.