Turn Off the Radio and Start Singing

We are the medium

Sometimes it can seem like the world is such a negative place. If you look at the various media, it seems like everyone is bashing someone. Whether it’s TV or radio or magazines or the internet, most everyone who is talking is putting someone or something down. Politicians and pundits aren’t talking about positive things. Instead they are putting down what their opponents are saying or doing. TV shows get good ratings when they make fun of people or elements of society. Articles get read when they disclose the horrible truth about something. The most popular radio shows are those that slam things. The most clicked-on blogs are those that lash out against something. What is it about our society that this is reflecting? How does all this negativity excite us? Why do we subscribe to it? What emotions are being assuaged?

Is it a ‘majority rules’ kind of thing? Is that how most of society is but not us? Are you a part of the world who doesn’t care for that? Negativity sells, but do you buy it?

Occasionally the media is taken by an emotional positive story and that fleetingly becomes the story of the day and it seems like humanity bonds for ever so brief a moment. It seems like there really is some positive in the world and we feel good. But before we know it we’re right back into the pervasive negativity. Looking at all the information we are…