It's perhaps worth taking the opportunity here just to note how remarkably stable western society has been in these times. This sort of mindset could be runnin

It's perhaps worth taking the opportunity here just to note how remarkably stable western society has been in these times. This sort of mindset could be running and destabilising society. But, really, it isn't. It feels to me obvious why millions of people, looking at their TVs, far away from the-reality-on-the-ground would be afraid and paranoid. It's less obvious why everyone isnt. I think this says something hopeful about how governable and mature civilisation at-this-unprecendented-scale happens to be.