Lonely Heretic

Every time I read the news I have to remind myself, it just looks worse than it is. There's more coverage and noise now than ever before, with high tech tools and social media. Now if only the doomsayers, conspiracy theorists, and social and environmental activists would figure it out and chill.
Oh, wait... They know it already, there's just too much money to be made in frightening people and whipping them up into a frenzy. These storms will never cease. There will always be a zealous preacher on the pulpit, a crazed crusader in the crowd, a devout inquisitor about, and countless members of civil society ready to turn into a crazed mob at a moment's notice.
As a person of reason and balance, always seeking to question, always seeking the middle ground, and fighting to not give into madness, I will remain a lonely heretic.