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Who's To Blame?
"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy." -Wayne Dyer
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.” -Wayne Dyer
Lately I’ve noticed a disturbing trend.
In an attempt to stay informed and up on the current events of not only celebrity insanity/stints in rehab but also (and possibly more importantly) learning a wide range of what’s happening in the world today, I’ve noticed there’s not much substance out there. I know there’s actual ‘news’ happening. Somewhere. But I can’t for the life of me, find it.
The disturbing trend I was referring to earlier is the way ‘news casters’ (or ‘infotainers’) are just wild about playing ‘the blame game’.
The frame that the newscasters are laying out is this: when learning of or reporting a problem, instead of getting to the core, they go to the question, ‘Whose fault is it that we’re in this situation? Who is to blame? We need to know who to blame.’ Ostensibly, they want to figure out who to blame to ‘punish’ them (or simply interview them).
I guess in our era of 24 hour news on many, many stations, instead of actually reporting what’s happening, to stretch it out, we have to hear the inane blathering of hybrid news casters/talk show hosts/cultural critics/morons. The non-stop static of their voices is sort of like adding bread crumbs to ground beef to make a meat loaf . . . It makes the meat seem more substantial.
At this point, the news is mostly breadcrumbs. And they’re stale. And the meat might be tainted. And I’m full. And I’m a vegetarian anyway.
I’m not picking on any one station. It’s ALL of them (with the exception of the comedy show of Jon Stewart where more information is transmitted in twenty-three minutes than in all the other stations combined with their twenty-four hour coverage).
Our culture is so quick to assign blame without even attempting to assign solutions. When will we figure out how to get out of the messes we find ourselves in? Let’s change the frame around a bit and look at that.
The ratings are better when the news is bad or humiliating or if it’s about this one fighting with that one or if we can find a bad guy to taunt or hunt down (but maybe not capture . . .Osama, for example). Who’s to blame here? Whose fault is this? Oops. .. I’ve just proven the point and blamed others for blaming.