One thing though - whether by design or incompetence I cannot say - it seems apparent that todays 24/7 “bad news, all the time” news reporting coupled with disfunctional education system, parents, et. al, produces a neurotic populace fairly predictably.
24/7 “bad news, all the time” is an excuse, not a cause. One can ALWAYS turn the news off.
Simply enough, the problem is that:
A swaddled, coddled populace is a neurotic populace... for they simply cannot deal with reality, having been consistantly insulated from it.
A reality they face even time they walk out of their homes.