Bad Stuff Is Probably Happening Somewhere

Bad stuff happens everywhere. I don’t mean “bad stuff” like getting in a fender bender. Or even really bad stuff like your Internet crapping out in the middle of streaming your seventh consecutive episode of This Is How To Get Away With A Million Little Scandals With The Stars: Miami.

No, I’m talking about Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse-level bad stuff.

Famine. Earthquakes. AIDS. Hurricanes. Wildfires. Tsunamis. Cholera. Drought. Mudslides. Tornadoes. Terrorism. Ebola. Mass shootings. War.

Because we in the United States live thousands of miles (literally and figuratively) from the “third world,” stories of these occurrences tend to barely make the chyron scrolling across the bottom of our 4K QLED TV screens. Even our national trademark — gun violence — only occupies our nation’s attention for a few hours in the wake of the biggest incidents. Plenty more shootings barely make the nightly news. But each time a massacre happens, the gruesome news fades into the background as soon as something crazier is tweeted by the President happens.

Because you’re a forward-thinking, bias-challenging, modern-living, hyphen-overusing person, I’ve got a challenge for you:

Peel away from the average American’s usual news sources (read: Facebook) and take a look at Al Jazeera or BBC World News sometime. Or use any other reputable journalistic source. Get to a news outlet where stories are written, accurately and without censorship, on subjects other than…