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The Media Illusion
[Photo courtesy of hi_jme]We are a society fascinated with violence and our own destruction. No where is this more evident than in popular media. It is considered quite inappropriate to display people engaging in sexual activity, the very act which creates life, but seemingly ok to show an orgy of corruption, murder and judgement. I’ve always wondered why there is such an air of suspicion whenever I go about my business at work or shopping or wherever. The reason is clear, what we occupy our consciousness with is what we fill our lives with.
Could it be that we just love the drama too much? It would seem so.. no newspaper would make money if they published an edition of only positive stories. You know, for such a long time I placed the blame squarely at the feet of popular media for misleading the public (which they blatantly do I might add) but the reality is that we give them that power. A conscious world society (which we are not) would remove the puppet masters currently controlling the media movement. Check out three news stations one evening, say for eg. CNN, BBC and your local one and you’ll see they all run just about the same stories over and over again. Could anything be more boring?
Truth is a funny thing because it is heavily subjected to personal experience and my own personal experience has taught me that everything that somebody else conveys to you must be taken with a grain of salt, everything! What another finds ugly you may find beautiful, what another finds disturbing you may find enlightening. The media never shows the full story because it cannot. The majority of stations, publications and channels are owned by a few powerful men and a few powerful men cannot represent the perspective of 6 billion.
At this time I am only aware of my own consciousness and how I interpret the world. I believe there are those who can interpret the world through the eyes of others, merge consciousnesses and experience whole new ways of perception.. but for now I accept that this perception journey continues in solitude. The most important advice you could ever give yourself is to question everything.. never ever take as fact what others have relayed to you, not the media, not even your parents. You have the right to interpret events the way you wish to.
