Why We're Living in the Age of Fear
We live in the age of fear because the hose of information that floods us is constantly opened further: Letters → Telegram → Telephone → Radio → TV → Internet → Mobile Internet.<p>Human beings need <i>time</i> to manage their emotions. Time spent waiting. Time being bored. Time when NO new information, not even positive, is arriving.<p>We are constantly distracted and thus increasingly unable to sort out our feelings. That is the reason.<p>And distracted parents that can't give their children at least 15 minutes of absolutely undivided attention per day worsen their offspring's ability to manage emotions even further.<p>That is why Zuckerberg/Facebook's idea "just flood everyone with everything and it will get better" is dead-wrong.<p>What Facebook could do to really help the world is turning off it's platform for one day each week.