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How do you deal with terrible world events?

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i read as much as i can about it without overloading myself. i also try not watching tv because its depressing.

by michael_halvorsen 2005-Sep-10
i degrade with an overwhelming feeling of weltschmerz.

by alex13 2005-Sep-10
I watch the news in the exact same amount I used to. There's nothing I can do about it anyway. (no, really, there isn't, as much as people say there is, there isn't)

by Hayo 2005-Sep-11
@alex nobody uses that word. weltschmerz:
A German term meaning "world pain." It describes a sense of anguish about the nature of existence, usually associated with a melancholy, pessimistic attitude. Weltschmerz was expressed in England by George Gordon, Lord Byron in his Manfred and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, in France by Viscount de Chateaubriand, Alfred de Vigny, and Alfred de Musset, in Russia by Aleksandr Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov, in Poland by Juliusz Slowacki, and in America by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
@hayo your confusing
@michael tv is depressing which is why I hardly ever watch local news. I finding stuff overseas more entertaining.

by owen 2005-Sep-12
@owen i use weltschmerz and interestingly enough, pretty often these days. It was the first thing that came to mind when i saw the question.
Note:
weltschmerz is pronounced:
VELT'-shmairtz

by alex13 2005-Sep-12
weltschmerz is a very unhealthy attitude, methinks.

by Hayo 2005-Sep-12
@hayo very unhealthy

by alex13 2005-Sep-12