How we drive ourselves crazy

-Man why are news so depressing? I asked God.
-Maybe because journalists are no journalists but psychiatrists on a secret mission.
Well I don't know if that was really HIM who answered but you know what the bad thing is?
This probably isn't even a genius's marketing plan to get the couches filled, it's our very own masochistic nature. Now I'm not at all someone who'd want to see the papers filled with birthdays and wedding announcements. But could someone please explain why we drive ourselves crazy about things which are just myths? Let's face it there are more fun (and faster) ways to end up in the looney bin than from keeping up with the news. Try psychedelic mushrooms, someone told me that a friend of her thought she was a strawberry and she screeemed DON'T EAT ME I'M NOT RIPE. Now that is a stylish way to go nuts, isn't it? The news is so boring compared to that.

Ok now if you don't want to get high or blue or whatever, just ask yourself the next time you read the paper if they're bullshitting you. Beware of statistics, they're great to frighten people, after all, who's not wetted their pants at school because of the infamous four-letter subject? Everybody is afraid of maths and statistics and because we have some kind of horror gene planted in us the papers keep printing them like mad. Crime is a great example. Crime rate risen by 20%! Sounds familiar? Well the coolest thing about the crime rate is that the people who are most afraid of crime are those who are the most unlikely to ever become a victim. So this is good news for all the cowards out there ;-)
Ever thought that there may be more policemen patrolling, that there are more people in general than when the dinosaures where here, that more people have access to police stations because everybody has a phone and the vehicle to get there? New laws result in new crimes and these make the statistics look really scaring.

I don't mind if we all get mental but let's do it in a more creative way.