Stop leading a life lead by fear
It is a scientific fact that when put under stress, the human brain downgrades to the emotional, animalistic, survivalist thinking. I have friends who talk about "reptile brain". Others call this flight or fight. It's the thinking and body response that is reactive as opposed to responsive. It's the way of looking at the world as a dichotomy. It gets us nowhere. There's so much more than black and white, there are many more that two kinds of people in this world.
The last eight years have shown us this. Our nation has been ruled by fear of terror. Our resources have been pushed to the brink. Our soldiers abroad don't have the resources they need because they have been hastily sent off to fight a war against an ideology. There harder they fight, the greater the ideology grows. The more soldeirs we send, the greater the "enemy" grows out of a simple case of retaliation not unlike what we see growing in gan warfare on the much neglected homefront. And yet, our government is so taken with "protecting" us... we've lost our borders, we lost the value of our currency, we've lost our economy. To the international community it appears we have lost our identity.
When we live in a state of fear and reaction (which are completely ego-driven emotions!), no one is a true friend. Every person becomes a means to an end. We lead a shallow, self-centered existence. Greed, hate, and delusion.
Please consider this the next time you hear a pundit or politician pontificating about "them" and how "they" want to kill you in your sleep, want to destroy the way you live and our way of life. Who will answer that call at 3am??? Breathe into your heart and feel your chest open and allow your mind to open up and consider it more deeply. Don't buy in to the fear. If you truly have anything to be fearful of... it may be how these people seem to want to profit from you being fearful. What is with that? What would you say yes to when fearful that under a better mindset you'd see as an overreaction, a ruse?
I am not saying that there aren't bad people in the world. It is clear that there are just as many "bad" people within our own borders and towns as there are halfway across the world. Wouldn't it be more beneficial to take on the issues closer to home for once? It does take a calmer mind to look closer to home. It also takes a calmer mind to not fall for the overseas threat, but to see a greater threat in how some seem to profit so well in sending everything away.