With all the bad news coming one after another, you start wondering if all of it is true. What's worse is when somebody starts to cry "Wolf" and pretty soon everything fall apart in the chaos. People get so carried away with emotion that reason is lost in the confusion caused by lies perpetuated by fools. It's incredible how gullible people can really be. When I think of situations like these, I remember Black Sabbath's song "Mob Rules".
At times like these, the truth becomes so elusive. The part is when the truth is finally proclaimed, the lie has gathered enough strength that the truth becomes irrelevant. At this point, people will rather believe the lie than the truth. I guess that's why Union Gen. Ulysses Grant was one of my favorite war heroes because he was always so calm and amidst all the chaos, he differentiate between exaggeration and truth and thus come up with a plan. I wish more people were like that.
Whenever an awful development happens, people tend to forget that the first thing you have to do is find out what really happened and figure out what to do once they know the truth. Rather than just believe one side of the story. Try to get the whole picture before you let emotion lead you to do something you're going to regret. Unfortunately, people are now too emotional and common sense is becoming an endangered quality trait. That's what happens when the mob rules.
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