With THE MEDIA - Selling Psychology

       I try to make mental growth a priority.  Often many seem to be concerned with growth only on a visual level.  As a result, this has caused an overall impatience of our humanity.  I speak to people each day and often find that, if they are not “hit over the head” with a one-dimensional visual, then disappointment is felt. Or, “it” does not get through to them.  The media is partly responsibility for this, as well as our choices as to what, when, and how much media we consume.  Our sprit possesses a natural feeling of wanting to be happy. Frequently, this feeling is used by the media.  This is nothing new. The media for years have been showing images based on the principle of money and whatsoever surrounds money as bringing happiness.  Ninety-nine percent of our media are motivated by advertisers, and the advertisers’ motives are to get us to buy at any cost to us or even our lives.

          It seems that the media fools people in layers.  Many who become attached to the media think they’re “onto” the media’s game. But, often, they are just onto the first layer of that game.  A majority of these “media powers” try to put on display their intentions to only sell a product or service, creating thoughts that we should go out and buy this product within a certain period of time, whether it is a week, a month, or when a particular holiday comes around. This is just the first layer. The next layer is when many of these advertisers and companies try to get us to believe that we are buying from an independent sales person for a particular item. 

          The truth of both these layers is that the majority of these companies are funding these advertisements are all on the same team, whether they want to admit it or not.  Also, they are not too concerned with selling “this or that” product on a short-term sale.  What they are truly selling is a “psychology.”  They’re selling a “mind moment,” and not for a week or until the next holiday, but for the long-term or perhaps a lifetime and even generation. They are focused on selling a psychology to be passed down to our youth.  Many of us are buying it and instilling it in the youth on a daily basis.  So we have been infected with this psychology.  Soon, we are working for them, selling their psychology, and have become so attached that now we face an addiction.  Why do I call this an addiction?  If we stop, we may feel pain from feeling “left out” and withdrawal because everyone else is “doing it.”

          On a subliminal level, we might believe that money brings people together because this is often the perception of how to access interactions.  I cannot tell you how many gatherings I have been to where I overheard people talking about “what so and so just bought” or “what we have not bought yet” and what we think we can control.  Sometimes, I wish more people would talk about what is free and what we cannot control. That is love and humanity.

          We have bought into this psychology from the media so habitually that we are attached to it because we have invested so much time and money in it. We want a return on what we have invested.  We are so worried about what we want and what we will receive in return.  So what is our “return?”  Our return is our youth and the next generation.