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Staying Sane
Finding Courage and Compassion in Times of Pure Insanity
The world is in its usual mess. Genocide, poverty, disease, insatiable greed. The corporate media provides an unending stream of the carnage. This, the mainstream media screams, is the condition of mankind. There’s nothing to do but sit back and watch it all unfold. The best you can do to help is to keep allowing your tax dollars to flow to the defense contractors who provide the weapons that keep us safe from the bad guys. Have no compassion for the bad guys. They deserve whatever they get.
The corporate media serves as a barrier to the natural compassion we should feel when hearing of children being blown to bits by bombs. Whether it’s Fox News or Ms-NBC, it doesn’t matter. All mainstream media are cheerleaders for the powerful. The talking heads tell us who the good guys and the bad guys are. Who we should hate and blame for all our woes, and who we should arm to the teeth to defend our “freedom.”
Something inside you doesn’t feel right about the inhumanity of these military actions, but you tamp down that queasy feeling and go along with what you are told. Independent thinking is highly discouraged, and is more and more being punished.
“Most people are convinced that as long as they are not overtly forced to do something by an outside power, their…
