This is the first episode of a British show called How TV Ruined Your Life. I’m sharing it because it drives home the point that the influences we subject ourselves to deeply influence our perception of the world. TV is the pet example here, but remember that it’s one of many.
Pete,
I enjoy your explorations of the psyche. 10 or 15 years ago when going through a mid life crisis period I was lucky enough to rediscover Alex de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” specifically volume II, where he evaluates the American psyche. For me it presented a relevant context to assist my explorations. From my perspective, he perfectly nailed the box we live in, America, but did it back in the 1820s. I thought you might like to check out what he has to say. It just so happens that I’ve been recently posting directly from Volume II and so the link to my blog which follows.
Jay
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Hey Jay, you might really like thelastpsychiatrist.com, which covers similar subjects. I’ll check out the link, thanks a lot 8)
I watched both videos. That show is really hilarious.
I’ve had something interesting happen lately. The time that I meditate and stay in “reality”, the less desire I seem to have to watch TV. I don’t even really turn the thing on anymore.
And ever since I really started working on my inner peace, I don’t even want to watch horror movies. Any time there’s a particularly gruesome part, I just get annoyed.
It’s like, why would I willingly want to make myself feel bad?
The same goes for news, which I haven’t ever watched (ugh!), and creepy kid shows too!
Eye opening as ever, Pete.
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I have the same experience, of feeling totally disconnected from low vibration activities like TV. I’ve learned to listen to that inner compass and just stop interacting with those things when I get a twinge of “wait, why am I doing this? Yuck.”