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It certainly can, especially if you keep looking at the destruction. I like to remind people that whether you are looking at the good or the bad, there is far more of each every day than you can keep up with. It's all about how you want to spend your time and what you choose to experience in your own life.

not just looking at it, when ever you turn on the tv, facebook, Steemit etc - somewhere there is talk, pictures, discussion of destruction - I am a positive person the vast majority of time, but this continual bombardment of negativity can be a little overwhelming sometimes and a feeling of fustration that more needs to be done to stop what ever is being destroyed can take hold ... I do spend my time in as postive way that I can.

You have control over what you see on FB (I unfollowed everything but a couple of inspiring quotes pages), I definitely never watch TV, read magazines & newspapers, listen to the radio, etc. "Mainstream Media" as people refer to it is simply the other side of the same programming campaign as government schools.