The News Media

Every day and in Every way, the news media shows itself to be a collection of really dim-witted bobbing heads all trying to "one up" the other guys' previously made - though usually quite poorly - point of view, because it makes them feel good in a certain place and in a certain way, though just barely registering on their internal "glee meter". That's why the conversation keeps rolling on, as our brains keep on keepin' on, to take yet another hit off the bong (so to speak.)

There is much more going on with this, of course, but the main point is that the human brain needed "something" - way back when, some several if not tens of thousands of years ago, and continuing even more so, almost exponentially, today - to stimulate the growth of the language and speech centers, and attuning the hearing centers to register thought and speech from "out there". A "something" that connected the "intellectual, dry and mostly electrical gray-matter being" to the "emotional, wet and mostly chemical blood&guts being" just coming along, evolutionarily. That is, thought that comes out the mouth and is heard by both the speaker and some listener(s), makes one "gleeful" in a rather insignificant, yet also quite important way. Thinking, and Speaking, and Listening (with intention and attention that exceeds the general, typical, ordinary state of somnambulistic automatism of that human being) is FUN, big time, and in a very useful-to-the-species way. That is, EVERYONE enjoys this activity, almost more than any other activity, and that is especially true today, in our generally sedentary world.

(Note: if all human brains on Earth suddenly went silent - maybe from a strange virus that appeared on the scene, perhaps a weird Zika variant, or a bizarro GMO - the speech and listening centers would quickly atrophy, reverting to their older pre-language capacities, and after a few short generations we would probably revert to the primarily lizardly/mammals that were here in the very beginning of our life on Earth. Our brains might even start SHRINKING, and later perhaps, even our SKULLS!)

Just watch CNN, or MSNBC, or FOXNEWS, or any of the other opinion-based sources of "infotainment" (entertainment parading as information, all for the primary purpose of collecting AD DOLLARS), and notice how the bobbing heads jockey for position in the ongoing conversation stream, for hours on end, without even a bathroom break, while each and every one of them maintains their HUGE PASTED-ON SMILES as they blurt out their next, supposedly "important and significant" bit of the imaginary PUZZLE being fleshed out before the audience's eyes. Most of the points being made, are a god damn JOKE, not worthy of a group of pre-adolescents discussing their favorite and not-so-favorite teachers, classmates, pop stars, parents and the rest of their tiny world. But, do note, they are loving every moment, and seem hyper-stimulated between the eyes and ears, where all those sound and light waves are converted to a certain kind of electrical energy that is quickly consumed by the bucket-load in that "Certain Place" and in a "Certain Way", that damn near nobody on Earth has a clue about!!!!

(Uh... but just because damn near NOBODY has a clue about it, 

that does NOT mean NOBODY has a clue about it... 

and therein lies a SECRET for all those who care to SEEK IT.)