Chapters 27 & 28
Rolf's Points
(What's mentioned in the book)
Your humanity is not measured according to how much misery you consume on the news, nor by the sympathy it elicits.
- Rolf Dobelli
For more on terrorism see the writings of Martha Crenshaw, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, some of them are listed here:
Fighting Terrorism in the Age of Social Media
Crenshaw also contributed to the works of Randy Borum: Psychology of Terrorism
Useful statistics on Our World in Data
For global death toll of different causes of death see Oxfam Research
See also Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, p. 161
Vale's Points
(What's supplemented when Vale was reading)
If news has constituted a large part of your life, then giving up news is a radical move. It will change your life radically. To change your life radically, you've got to make radical decisions and have a lot of uncomfortable conversations with yourself.
And one such uncomfortable discussion is that News Consumption Encourages Terrorism.