[TMWNN]

>Sure, but sometimes the history involves a superpower teetering on the brink of fascist dictatorship

Boy, did you miss the point of the article and discussion

[jacobolus]

In a nutshell, the article says that reading a lot of scary news causes anxiety, and if you listen to your therapist and steeply limit that reading and spend your time eating ice cream and watching cat videos instead, you can reduce that anxiety.

Sometimes anxiety (fear, rage) is well justified. Sometimes large-scale threats are real.