This denies the effect of what we're given on what we want in the future. Heroin dealers aren't just supplying to satisfy a need, they wilfully feed it knowing it will grow.
Same with the media, supermarkets etc...
edit: however, you are right that we are the ones with the power. A united populous effort can bring down any entity that relies on it's demand (in the absence of a monopoly).
I don't deny it. I know that there are psychology techniques that companies and people use to change behavior. I think that people really overemphasize them.
Take me, for example.
I don't have a television. I'm on the internet a lot, but I never check news sites unless it is for something specific every once in a blue moon. I am not your average american who watches reality TV and has the news station on TV all day long. I have no psychological dependency on that shit.
So, like I said....media companies are just all about getting viewers. They have shitloads of data about what kind of programming packs viewers in the seats. The
know what the public wants to see.
Even a guy like me who doesn't give a fuck about news wants to go to a news site or flip the TV onto CNN. If, in 1 week from now, they make an arrest and I hear about it, Im going to CNN.com or flipping to some news station if Im at a friends house. If whatever station I flip to doesnt have this news front and center at the time that I flipped there, Im flipping to another news station that does...and they are getting whatever ratings points I have to offer.
I'm curious about every detail I can learn about the Boston bombing and I was about Sandy Hook...but it sure as hell isnt because of what the news usually shows. In what planet do people not care about learning details of a domestic tragedy? Of course we do...its normal. And of course they broadcast the living fuck out of it for that reason.
But hey man, dis is all just advice. You can think whatever the FUCK YOU WANNA THINK (muscletwins reference)
