Projection

Whatever its initial purpose the mass media has become a vain attempt to escape our inner failings by projecting them onto an external screen we can somehow feel is not actually us and feel momentary relief that we are OK and it is the world out there that is crazy. In other words, it becomes some kind of entrancing addiction of avoidance. However, the attempt is self-defeating as those running the organisations take advantage of this fundamental egoistic tendency to avoid and face up to our own inner truths. The mass media will continue to have power until we turn inwards and understand we actually have nothing to fear and have all the capacity we need to heal our inner lives and we no longer need to give that power away to others. Then we may redesign a media that is more supportive of our individual efforts at self-improvement rather than exploitative of our tendency to avoid it