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Only if one’s mental health can take it. The most important thing is to gain some personal contentment first, before channelling energy into saving the planet or whatever, otherwise it may well may one pretty unwell.

Is the Hillsborough bus the one with glum faces peering out and carrying a drum?

Very true. In that mythical sunlit past, countless kids were sexually abused with no hope of being believed (entire lives ruined, nonces free to do as they pleased), staff had to treat bosses reverently, working conditions were dangerous, holiday leave much smaller, cures for many cancers...

You replied to me, but politically I’m least of your problems on NSC and in society in general. If you read my various posts over the years, I’m a Remainer, as vehemently anti Trump/Pence/Ult Right as anyone on NSC, huge on the planet and climate change, for a general and significant increase...

I’m not one of those people who can fully refrain. Like you, I watch the doom and gloom, reflective in a lot of gloomy posters.

If you are unable to absorb real world stories without it getting you down, you need to stay a big step back and work instead to become a more content person inside. Only once you’ve achieved that, can you deal with the ups and downs of the world, and perhaps make a tangible difference yourself...

Don’t follow the news religiously, turn it off. The happiest people are fully aware of what’s going on in World, but don’t watch/listen/read the non stop conveyor belt of negativity. There’s far more to life than politics, crime in London, etc. 24 hour TV news has made it much worse, with Sky...