Overcoming Frustration and Misery in Humanity’s Age of Wonders

An unidentified reporter near the front lines of a conflict. This photo is from a website that offers PTSD counseling for reporters, for they are often as vulnerable to the mental and emotional scars of war as are the soldiers whose sacrifices they record. (Ardent Counseling Center)

“If it bleeds, it leads.” It means the most horrifying stuff goes on the front page of papers and dominates the first ten minutes of any news broadcast. In the media, the only thing that sells better than sex is blood and death.

And it’s making us miserable when by any rational measure, humans alive today should be the happiest in all human history. After…