i read the news every day (on the net, since i'm a hopeless net-addict), and i see lots of manifestations of fear. descriptions of the evil. your occasional natural disaster.
everywhere you look, you find things like trials for bad things, disasters, beware of the bad guy, and all-around stuff like that.what seems amazing to me is that these things make the news; i mean the big news;
and what makes the news is what most people are most interested in (that is what generates audience; and what grows the rating of the news service);
news agencies, and mass-media attempt to put in the news what they hope will make people come back for more.
you see, what bothers me is not the news per se.
these things happen. there's no denying that.
but instead of seing them as the state of the world all-over, i choose to see them as simple symptoms;
so, the content of the daily news is not what i'm ranting about; it's not like i could stop them right now, and not like complaining about them will change them or anything.
i know that!
what bothers me (and what i'm complaining about), is that people choose to look for the bad things in the news. it's what they look for when opening the morning paper; they look over the headlines for this or that killing; for an earthquake; for signs of the worsening economy in this or that world-part; they're not life changing: your life won't get better or worse of anything because some desperate sod murdered an unborn baby in new york.
seing them, you get the feeling that the world is ending. that things are going from bad to worse. that natural disasters are multiplying by the minute. that oh my god, we're all going to die.
so, why does it happen? why do we need to see the evil in some form in the news? why not have frontlines of other events?
it's because we have split the world in bad and good; and in order to feel good, in order to feel that the current situation is good, that our lives are good, or manageable or ... not bad, we need something worse to compare it to. We need to see the bad guy, so that we feel we're not it
and you know where it comes from? from christian religion (well ... mainly; because islam is worse);
i mean, if in god's world there is good and evil, how can here be any different?!?
we simply cannot conceive that!
so no, there is no good and evil! no binary world! no inerent evil! no devil!
it's just an image in your head! in your upbringing! it's a limit you impose on your thinking! it's a bug in your version! :)
go patch yourself! :)
you can see any perpetrator as a tormented sod! as some misguided person; but most of us choose not to! we choose to have a bad guy! we want the bad guy.
because of that, we get not to help, but to punish. and becuase we turn to punishing instead o helping, things won't change.
it's all in our head.
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