I have to ask this question because I really don’t understand the purpose of showing the ills of the world, the suffering, only to tell us that we can’t do anything about it.
You can’t protest, you can’t express how you feel, you can’t rally, you can’t gather! Seriously so why are you showing me this on the news?
Oh I see to make me immune to suffering, to normalise suffering so that I begin to think it’s just part of everyday life – oh well, fancy a coffee?
Honestly! I can’t…
You see it’s so clever, you sit watching the news or reading it – to be honest you can’t escape it whatever you do, unless like me you like to escape to a nice dark isolated rock from time to time. However whenever I surface there it is, in my face, the everyday suffering that people all over the world endure, that’s being pushed on us as the norm, so that these leaders of fear, can continue to do as they do while we’re suppose to think that this is just normal now and we leave them too it.
Why show human suffering if you’re not going to help, or what’s the average person really to do to immediate effect and change someone’s lived experience? I can’t do anything to affect that change, that war ridden effects. Highlighting the antics and crimes of the perpetrators in the past used to mean something, getting angry and acting on things made a difference, protest delivered results when powerful leaders cared what the public thought.
Not anymore because they’ve seen just how much they can get away with with the fear of death. Not just through war but health. We’re all dealing with our own slow burning ailments that that becomes our immediate concerns. Obviously it does, I know, I get it, but even that is a clever construct. There’s no real desire to help the people we see in pain all over the world on the news, there’s no real desire to make us healthy – because we all must know there is more than enough wealth go go round for everyone to have a approximately billion dollars each!
There's no genuine desire to help
When has watching the news every served us in any way other than to in still fear?
I come across the odd goodness story, but you now what I’m saying, all the news does is spread the worst of human behaviour.
I’m not buying that it sells – even that answer is something we have to question.
I don’t have the answer to the fact that it’s important to know the risks we face from humans behaving badly, but if we watched less and felt more our natural skill for intuition would sharpen and we’d sense the danger but we’re losing that skill and being left with fear and uncertainty, and a fundamental lack of trust in ourselves, in our gut.
We need to stop and ask ourselves this question, does watching the news serve me in any other way other than programming me to feel fear?
Why show me this if I can't do anything about it?
