Program your biocomputer
If you're a regular consumer of the major news programs, you belong to
a very persuasive and hypnotic cult. You need to be de-"programmed."
Start by altering how you listen to electronic radio gossip, the news, and
shock and schlock TV shows. Program out all the negative, cynical, and
skeptical thoughts that you now allow to flow into your mind unchecked
when you hear the news.
"Headless Woman Found in Topless Bar!"
That was an actual headline in a daily New York City newspaper. I used
to work for a city newspaper, 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 conscious
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 whatever 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 media 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 tabloids in the grocery store checkout line. We smile at them even
before reading that aliens are living in the White House. We need to
take that same attitude toward what passes as "serious" media.
Once you've gotten good at factoring out the negative aspects of the
media today, take it a step further: Make your own news. Be your own
breaking story. Don't look to the media to tell you what's happening in
your life. Be what's happening.
If you're a regular consumer of the major news programs, you belong to
a very persuasive and hypnotic cult. You need to be de-"programmed."
Start by altering how you listen to electronic radio gossip, the news, and
shock and schlock TV shows. Program out all the negative, cynical, and
skeptical thoughts that you now allow to flow into your mind unchecked
when you hear the news.
"Headless Woman Found in Topless Bar!"
That was an actual headline in a daily New York City newspaper. I used
to work for a city newspaper, 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 conscious
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 whatever 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 media 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 tabloids in the grocery store checkout line. We smile at them even
before reading that aliens are living in the White House. We need to
take that same attitude toward what passes as "serious" media.
Once you've gotten good at factoring out the negative aspects of the
media today, take it a step further: Make your own news. Be your own
breaking story. Don't look to the media to tell you what's happening in
your life. Be what's happening.
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