Civilisations that have been bombarded by media with bad news for some 50+ years now, and at the same time immersed in comfort from any real dangers due to material prosperity, are people who are fearful of almost anything that might threaten their comfort emptied of culture, as that is all they have left. Fear of disease and catastrophes that might occur prevents the human spirit from resting and mass phenomena from happening that probably would not occur without the media global cacophony of the eternally imminent end of the world. But who knows, maybe people have always tended to believe in doom and miss out on trusting each other about it and realising that reality in the mind is not the same as reality outside the mental imagination? How else can it be explained that people give themselves up to fighting each other, although these very people depend on each other in their daily existence?
And even the brightest minds seemed unable to resist the fearful fantasies when they spoke of world problems, when the world is far too big and incomprehensible to "solve its problems". At the same time, we may very well overlook the kindness and less spectacular displays of trust that take place, don't we? One's own loving, affectionate and responsible nature is always there, always has great potential, as long as one does not try to prevent it from expressing itself through explicit morality. But where morality is explicitly imposed, ethics cannot unfold implicitly.
Greetings to you. <3