Some days...

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Some days it all gets too much.

- ISIS threatens to open up Arab/Muslim intolerance of the west

- Putin talks of nukes, and turns the clock back on relations.

- Corporations world wide are cutting back staff.. Technology was supposed to usher in a new age of prosperity and extra leisure time, instead it's being used to cut jobs and reduce skills. Manufacturing is dying. Jobs are going offshore

- People are becoming more selfish, less gracious, more angry, fat on gadgets and malnourished in spirit

- Governments and companies want to invade your privacy more, and with increasing impunity

- Opinions are looking more polarized, less tolerant of the grey in between

- Tolerance of differences has plateaued and heading into decline

Seems like the world is going through a sharp moment of entropic stupidity
Sometimes I want to scream out, "I'm mad as Hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
...but that won't happen.

Maybe it's just the mood I'm in today. Sometimes I no longer want to be here

Yes, I agree with you. I can't help wondering if sometimes (especially regarding world politics) if nations get up to more mischief if there are other word crises going on, to dilute the impact and response to their own actions. E.g. The west seems distracted with ISIS so Putin sends troops into the Ukraine.

If you go cold turkey on all news media, then most of those problems will go away like magic

The world has been like this for a long, long time. We've had some worse moments, we had some better moments--but it's basically status quo, as far as I'm concerned. Crises are just in different places. If something is not happening in Rwanda, it's happening in Iraq.

I am lucky I am relatively detached, physically, from what's occurring in places like the Middle East. If I were a Syrian refugee, I would have a much different viewpoint, owing to my experience. I would like there to be a solution--but the powers-that-be (whether it be the "first world" or "other" words) really do not desire a complete end to this. This is owing to both greed and complacency, I believe.

One big problem is that the world has become "smaller" owing to technology. There are many more ways to sabotage things, owing to technology.

I would just live my life, and hope for the best/expect, to a certain extent, the worst.

Not really. Of course, those problems won't literally go away, but If paying attention to them is causing depression, then going cold turkey on news media seems like a prudent move, at least for a short while. Most of it has no truth value, anyway,