When it all seems so angry and hurtful, gruesome and inhumane; I find it helps to read history----it helps me to put things in perspective, we are not more cruel than our ancestors...but we know much more about what is going on everywhere all at once (or we think we do from sound bites) and, for many of us, it is a "out there" thing that, like anxiety vs fear based on immediate reality, makes us needing to find the "right" labels, boxes, places to put things.
Containment, psychologically, is necessary at times.

Brutality is hardly new, and, if I read history right, we actually have come some distance for the better.
Years ago, I read the bible and wondered about that "God"---where was he much of the time? Life is a struggle for all beings, I believe the earth would live on without people, that we could become extinct like the dinosaurs etc---

So, a people-centered Being just never quite touched me.
The universe, physics, can't explain (well not in a quick post) that I "get" at some level. Me, the tree, the person down the street, the granite erratics in nearby woods, we are all made of the same stuff, all stardust--the genetic nearness of life amazes me---takes so little to make huge differences.
There are things I will never know...and that is okay.
I have experiences I do not understand. And that is okay.
For me, being out of doors, camping primitively, and tossing the watch brings great calm. Peace.
Yet, I love to walk Central Park, the city, to watch people all day and peruse architecture etc-------------this is a human energy with all its feathers and defects. It has its own comfort. I ramble.
Most "stories" never make the news, and sometimes the news "makes" a story. ( I have a great respect for journalists who work to bring real news to the world, it can be a dangerous, and it is a necessary job)
I don't have television, get news from the radio mostly, sometimes on line.
Oh, this is not quite what I wanted to say but it's early and I am distracted...
hugs all around