We live in a unique time in human history – one that offers the potential for revolutionary change.  Information is power - and technology has delivered it to the masses, for the first time, through the internet and fast, affordable computers.  With little effort, accurate and penetrating information and news is available free of charge - and in the time it takes to tap a few keys. 

How is it then that a fairly well educated, media-savvy public is as misinformed about what is really happening here at home and abroad?  On issue after issue - healthcare, wealth distribution, race relations, education, politics, religion, war, poverty, the environment – polls show that the average American is dangerously misinformed.

Why?  Do we not want to know?  Would knowing force an uncomfortable change in our behavior?    I think T.S. Elliot asked the most pertinent question our time;  "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?  Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" 

What do you think?

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Sometimes truth hurts,pricks our conscience and we feel we SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT but... what to do? It can be unsettling unless
we are willing to take a chance and
possibly upset our safe? comfy world we have created and which probably includes several other family members. So .... take small
steps. Take a chance and look and ask outside our comfort zone maybe.
Be less fearful and seek truth, then use our imaginations. Maybe ask family members for support.
Fear of the unknown is possibly our biggest enemy.

Being in the midst of raising a family has something to do with it. It isn't that I don't want to know. It's that it can become so overwhelming you feel helpless and that's not good for kids. So, my answer is, like the "maleman" said, take small steps, do what you can in any little way to make the world a kinder, better place. Don't participate in something you know is wrong.

People do not want to know many things and eerily in this fairly well educated,and media saavy society, people have a fairly clear understanding of what it is they don't want to know.

So while this knowledge resides someplace in their mind,it did get in there, people have tactfully learned to exclude it from their day to day comings and goings and then from week to week and then finally from year to year.

So life just goes by and they never let the thinking back in.

But I think just about everybody knows that the times are highly perilous.

One thing that makes this easier to bear is that I also think most people are absolutely convinced that there is nothing they can do about it.

So why even try?

That is perhaps the big lie.

Also, fear of what we do know is what often overwhelms us. Knowing that there are things I cannot know is sometimes my greatest source of strength. It allows me to live in Hope and Faith and to think and act creatively.

Force changes in our behavior? It seems that people cannot be forced to do anything and they do not want to change themselves. But perhaps they will.

Thats one thing we don't know yet.

You don't have to be in the US to see that this doesn't just apply to where you guys are. Over across the great pond, we have a similar problem with being subject to what people want to tell us and what we'd like to hear, which is the truth mostly. I think that the proliferation of blogs and other internet based fora is allowing people to discover what they've been missing. It all depends on how and what you want to discover.

Fear, as Petyer says, can be something that quells our curiosity. Knowledge takes effort - perhaps making that effort to question provokes people into the subtle changes that tend to ripple, rather than make big waves. Maybe we need bigger ripples coming to shore?

This is an interesting site BTW - nice job!

First I must say how much I've enjoyed all of DJ Kadagian's work and it is enough to say it stands by itself.

But for the traffic on this Blog, I find myself asking how many Spiritual Window Shoppers have brushed by this page without comment.

Perhaps if you find yourself here with nothing worthwhile to say for yourself and you haven't made the effort or investment to watch RANT and RAVE, personally I would suggest you do so. Otherwise you can go back to sleep.

But regarding what effect mass media may or may not be having, I don't like handing too much authority over to them.

I am noted for my cyncism or my "negativism" as my sister likes to say and I will offer no apologies for that here.

But people will say, "But Peter, look at the good things happening here." or "Look at what these people are trying to do."

People mis-understand that I do realize there are a lot of good people out there wanting to do a lot of good things. If I did not truly believe that as an article of my own human faith, I would truly be dark with pessimism.

But it is as LilaRose said, "taking small steps."

So we have a lot of good people (even those we count as our enemies) taking good small steps everyday. And yet when the sun comes up, the outlook is worse than the day before.

So ignoring all the latent "good will or intentions" acting out everyday, pragmatically from an outcome perspective, we are not doing what we need to get done.

Today calls louder than ever for newer and bigger ideas and steps. And while the mindless media speakes to mindless people, I think a lot of people want to and are ready to do bigger things.

Its not just the media, but what American media and politics and religion are all failing to do is show people what really can be done.

Petyer

You have a following of people who will demonstrate against the war, but won't stand up to protect the children being abused by the principal of the school --- afraid of what the neighbors might think.
99.9% of the people are below average and like it that way. The more educated they are, the worse it is.
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george simpson

You roar about being powerless
Yet the truth is within you
You rail again the ones with money
Against the ones with the power

Yet is you, that limit your power for good.

Love your world, and those in it.
Expect change, demand change, but do it in small steps, as relentless as a steady rain.

One drop, is not much, a multitude, is unstoppable.

Rumi and Neruda understood passion, and living, and loving

They touch us because we tremble , considering being like them.

Daring to be alive, to love, to feel

Best wishes, struggling free of your coccoons.

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