necessary (if) ty to be well informed I. Being well informed
seemed to be the choice with which to leave the children seemed to be one of the synonyms of maturity, appeared to be a cherished meeting with the approach itself, with identity, with intelligence. Then there was a wealth of media options to choose from, all according to a profile depending on the profile that will identify you, that would be the newspaper, magazine, radio station, television channel, the website that burn up (in Mexico we know who are the different consumers of Excelsior, La Jornada, Chronicle, Milenio, La Prensa, Process, Letras Libres, Image 90.5, 105.7 Reactor, TV news, Reporte Indigo, etc.)
then would the public debate, the confrontation of ideas with friends and family policies, defending what they believe to be true (that the truth is different for each of us is one of the main laws of chaos), identification with certain journalists, intellectuals and public figures, the rejection of others, the mental construction of a society based on good and bad, patriotic and unpatriotic, just and unjust in which politicians, businessmen, leaders of churches, football referees, etc. . become the subject of hate figures par excellence.
This was the right thing if you wanted to be an adult, except that in the end most adults I know make more of a society that knows how to choose and to choose would form an opinion based on this vital, philosophical and spiritual mechanism to transform any information into knowledge, but all we do with our choice is rather choose by what means we want to be sedated dose based information.
II.
I say this because not bear the excess of information throughout the day through various media. A typical day during the week for an office worker or other morning is something like: get up and put the radio news (several broadcasts begin at 5:45 am am), go by car or public transport to go to work, make one or two hours to reach it, continue to listen to news and editorials during this period, bad breakfast before or after leaving home, buy a newspaper, watch a video internet in relation to any relevant news, talking about how difficult it's all in the country with friends or colleagues, come home and see the midnight stroke of any of these interesting and exceedingly useful debate or analysis programs informatory occur mainly in television, falling asleep with the joy of being "well-informed. There
absurdly this idea that being well informed gives you power as a citizen, which can be true only need to understand what information is suitable to grow as a human being to be happy, to be free. Know of kidnappings, assassinations, corruption, economic crisis, a crisis of state legislative conflicts, etc. I do not see carrying mental state than the paranoia, fear, anguish.
Freedom of expression should not be more that feeling post-dictatorship (all of Latin America live in a century terrible at the government level) of "permission" to say what they want, whenever we want, as we want. Times have changed and today already that desired freedom of the last century, only to have to question whether it is worth so much media saturation alarming information because the only thing I see with the society where I live is that he is very attached to fear. Or better yet, if it's worth as a society give much importance to what happens in the news, if anything helps our creativity, our happiness, our well-being religiously believe in the news, we have the optics (neoliberal, Left or another).
III.
This year in Mexico have generated news that affect the social mind:
-2008 has left a discotheque in the nation's capital burned on a Friday afternoon with several minors in (a claim that should not happen if they had complied with the basic safety standards and permits to operate this business, that is, corruption in the middle)
-a pair of famous kidnappings that alarmed a large part of society (although Mexico has more than 10 years the story about kidnapping and murder as the Fernando Martí (14 year old son of a businessman), somehow someone decided that this was as important as for the bulk of people back to feel the fear of being kidnapped by the saturation of information on this particular case)
-a couple of grenades thrown into the public square of Morelia during the celebration of September 15 that killed several civilians
-una crisis económica mundial (que nomás no la veo a mi alrededor, la gente hace el súper normal y se siguen comprando autos, la gente cambia sus celulares, se sigue consumiendo mucha tecnología, etc.)
-demasiados asesinatos de periodistas, narcos, políticos, civiles, etc. a lo largo del país debido a la llamada “guerra contra la delincuencia” (o algo así)
-y para colmo, un jet de la Secretaría de Gobernación que se cae a la 6 pm en una de las zonas financieras-comerciales-habitacionales más emblemáticas y costosas de la ciudad (incluyendo lo sucedido en la misma zona dos días después: una fuga de gas también a las 6 pm que hace que todo Polanco y zonas stank surrounding gas, as well as the metro stopped running, the main avenue was blocked (Paseo del Reforma) and most buildings were evacuated, but in the end it was not gas but a chemical that is added to the gas so it smells)
All this happened in less than 5 months. And what on earth can stop all this that is not an uncontrollable psychosis, a sense of vulnerability, a fear all?
IV.
There is a teaching within the Kabbalah speaks about the emptiness of it's own without this information is transformed into knowledge. Knowledge leads to love and forgiveness leads to freedom and beneficial use of the mind, thoughts, not leading the trial and the offender, rather leads to empathy, happiness, peace. I wish there were less informative newscasts (single donors of data, each person processes information in different ways (usually negative) on the inside) and more news of knowledge, this would be: knowing what is happening in the world with a global approach (not nothing legal, economic, social), or include other perspectives on world events, a round table political scientists, poets, metaphysicians, journalists, rabbis, economists, Buddhists, scientists, anthropologists, historians, etc., talked the news that we digest as a society, we generally take to fear, and fear we have seen how much collective and individual concerns: it is always fatal, uncomfortable, sick, paralyzed. And I think we chose it out of habit or because they know no other option, we could not see, that shows us that fear no longer appears to be an inevitable event in the development of any society, but need not remain so If this is repeated in the story should be time to transcend.
