Ethics, Morals, The Media and Governments

When we feel sympathy with someone, or an event, it is their pain we are sharing, their heartache.

When the media, and through the media our various governments, choose what we hear about, what we watch and what we read, they are manipulating our sympathy and our pain for their profit. 

That profit could be monetary in the case of most media companies and media groups, or political power and election votes in the case of governments.

I'm not thinking of any particular TV station, or newspaper, or country, government or political party.  I'm thinking of our planet as a whole, and how our so called ethics and morals have become screwed up with politics and monetary gain.

We are all human, even the most evil of us.  And we are all responsible, even the most kind and thoughtful of us.  If these few words make just one person think about what's really going on in the world, makes them want to change things even if only a tiny bit, it will become a better place by degrees.