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Thanks for Amanya’s comments bringing attention to the role that media plays in keeping America hostage to fear and doubt.
Most of us over forty gave our power over to media decades ago when we bought into Madison Avenue’s version of the American dream. In so doing, we traded the power of self-determination for the power to purchase neatly wrapped and branded merchandise. Now, the picture we’re shown by media has changed from visions of a bright future to a nightmarish present. Be afraid of the economy, we are told. Be afraid of global warming. Be afraid of natural disasters. Be afraid of those other guys, those immigrants, those terrorists, those political leaders––red, blue or green, those people of a different color––black, white, yellow, red, brown. Be very afraid of those financial hooligans, those bankers and brokers, those scammers and spammers.
Still, we continue to buy in with dwindling discretionary income while our Inner Critters feed on frustration we increasingly feel because we can no longer really afford to shop our way to fulfillment. And here’s a very odd and interesting point. One might assume that with all of this fear and fear mongering, we would be reacting, but instead we have simply grown numb. Deadened by the din of both Inner and Outer Critters, we are resigned and thus lacking the adrenalin and focus needed to stand powerfully as a society for a more positive expression of life. We are experiencing stalemate in every power structure we have created, government, politics, economics, education, business, you name it.
So, how do we revive the American spirit that so positively influenced the entire world in the mid-twentieth century? How do we restart the engines of national pride and productivity? There is a way, and the answer is simple, but not easy. We reclaim, for our own use as individuals, the attention we currently give to the 5,000 or so carefully produced messages we now receive everyday from media. We turn off media and focus our attention inward. More on that next!
