Lie: I can’t feel secure unless I know what’s happening in the world.
Truth: We feel less secure the more we know what’s happening in the world.
This deception – that we’ll feel more secure by knowing what’s happening with remote events like, the war in Syria or the latest Zika casualty numbers or where the Mars rover happens to be – is easy to see as soon as the words are spoken. But how and why does this notion seduce us to feel more secure?
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