What we get exposed to on a daily basis is insane. The media looks to capture our attention through a non-stop barrage of anger, violence and poison. Reading headlines – which seem to ebb and flow hourly – you’d think civilization is collapsing. It’s not. Information is collapsing our consciousness. Ray Kurtzweil said it well today:

“People think the world is getting worse. … That’s the perception. What’s actually happening is our information about what’s wrong in the world is getting better. A century ago, there would be a battle that wiped out the next village, you’d never even hear about it. Now there’s an incident halfway around the globe and we not only hear about it, we experience it.”