Putting aside the tv soaps, does the team reallythink the world is in a parlous state?
I would suggest it is no worse than at other times. E.g. Vietnam war, Pol Pot kmer rouge killings.. pick a time and bad things were happening somewhere on the globe. Anyone that thinks Brexit is parlous State needs a dose of reality. E.g. the millions at any one time starving on the planet.
The problem is down to the hiysteria that the media whips up over all news reporting. Each days news report has to be more hard hitting and shocking than the previous day.
The big plus is we have made enormous progress in medicine and technology. Shame it isnt shared equally yet.
Yes indeed Varche. 80 years ago our grandparents were listening to the march of fascism and in particular the seemingly unstoppable rise of Hitler and the Nazis, which by now had passed the Munich crisis and was obviously shaping up to be another European / World War in the making. Within the year that would become a reality.
Brexit is nothing on that scale, and even with Putin huffing and puffing over Ukraine, the World is relatively quiet for us, but of course as ever, never for the Middle East.
World electronic driven media does magnify everything. in 1938 it was all down to Goebbels propaganda.