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and I remember how hard the editors in the newsroom
would search for the most shocking stories they could
find.
The news is not the news. It is the bad news. It is
deliberate shock. The more you accept it as the news,
the more you believe that “that’s the way it is,” and the
more fearful and cynical you will become.
If we realized exactly how much vulgar, pessimistic,
and manipulative negativity was deliberately packed
into every daily newspaper and most television shows
and Hollywood movies, we would resist the temptation
to flood our brains with their garbage. Most of us are
more particular about what we put in our automobile’s
gas tank than we are about what we put in our own brain
every night. We passively feed ourselves with stories
about serial killers and violent crime without any con-
scious awareness of the choice we’re making.
How do we change it? By worrying about it? No.
Rather than fretting about crime and apathy and what-
ever you wish would change in the world, it’s often very
motivational to heed the words of Gandhi, who said,
“You must be the change you wish to see.”
San Francisco writer and musician Gary Lachman
wrote a captivating essay called “World Rejection and
Criminal Romantics” in which he observed, “It’s the Ted
Bundys that get television coverage, not the thousands
of self-actualizers who work away at self-transformation
quietly and anonymously. And it’s their influence, not
that of the Ted Bundys, that will shape the face of the
coming century.”
Often we don’t have an opportunity to skip the me-
dia reports of crime and scandal, so it’s important that
we listen in a way that always programs out the effect.
We are pretty good at doing this when we pass the