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Blurred Vision Television

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Why are we as humans so prone to find ways of escaping reality? Within the course of the known history, we have always had the urge to observe, to explore and comprehend the world around us. The only problem is that with this observation we have slowly forgotten that we are part of the creation and have slipped into separation. It has always been easier to "'monitor" everyone and everything else in the presumably external world than to turn the camera inwards and "record" our inner world.  Due to this knowledge, that people are prone to "outrospection", the modern society witnessed the booming of the technological era. It all began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century when a new form of art was born. Behold the Motion Picture. It is funny how with a simple play of lights such baffling illusions are created. They capture your mind into a box of pixelated images which leave no one at ease. The TV has become a convenient window, that ...

Why do people read negative news?

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"Have you heard, our neighbors split up?" "Hey, dude there was a hell of a fight on the street last night." "Fires looting all over holiday destinations." "Earthquakes splitting the core of the planet. "People dying of hunger."A Terrible car crash on the highway."  These are the most of the news you will hear once you turn on the TV  and this is the kind of talk you will have later on with your neighbors, friends, relatives. They soon take shape of News of The Day as people unconsciously wallow inside the net the news channels so cleverly and patiently knit, a net where the common folk, thus us, fall in right away like flies.  Let's imagine for a moment that there weren't any TVs, no news channels, no radios no newspapers, no computers, no social networks. No outside lead to any information whatsoever. The news is now spreading from word to mouth. Now, what would the conversation between two regular people look like, ...