The Truth about Media Pollution

Do you ever wonder where people like Michelangelo, Beethoven or Benjamin Franklin went?  The truth is creative visionaries of this caliber really do not exist anymore.   Unlike the dinosaurs, the cause of their extinction can be directly identified as media pollution.  We have created and are living in a day and age that is bombarded and suffocated by the constant onslaught of information and influence.  Worse, the majority of this information could be interpreted as means to manipulate public opinion and/or to sell something.  Furthermore, other news is just not relevant--Do I really need to know what Brad Pitt is doing?  Many people are addicted to Hollywood gossip and are avoiding the reality of their own lives by immersing their brains in tabloids.  Here, we are ignoring the possibilities of expanding our own lives, because we prefer to be fixated on someone else.  The truth is that media pollution is dangerous and pervasive.

It seems like whenever we turn on our tv's or read a paper, it is always 'bad news.'  Though there is nothing wrong with weighing the facts and being informed, one has to know where to draw the line.  We cannot fill our heads with constant negativity all day and expect to have peaceful productive days.   We need to have faith that things will work out, that 'we' will be okay.  People have endured so much worse throughout history than we currently face.

Information, information, information.  It is funny, only 16 years ago when I graduated from college, information was something one had to pursue.  There was no prolific internet available to me at that time and I went to a place called the 'library' where it was quiet and I could focus on facts and draw my own conclusions.

In addition, I really get disgusted when on the rare occasion that I want to watch one of the hundreds of news channels available, I am confronted with the embarrassing behavior of some Hilton-spears-lohan, etc.  I'll go one step further and say that most of these 'so-called' entertainers and entertaining people more as parodies and bad role models.  And yes this includes our esteemed athletes too.

In conclusion, media pollution is stealing from us.  It steals our time and our peace.  Everyday, the average person is bombarded by thousands of images that are damaging to one's self-image and self-esteem.  Further, by constantly being informed of news events doesn't increase our control over life, it just feeds neurosis and starves our spirit.  Fight for quiet--shut down, turn on the spirit, the heart and the brain and watch the spark of creativity flare again.