How good are cartoons! and why you should avoid the news.
Remain childish – Remember how happy were you as a kid watching cartoons? Remember how much freedom you had? Why let that go? For me it was all about Pokemon and Dragon ball Z. I’ll still get up on a Sunday morning and smash out some cartoons every now and again. I recently even noticed that Pokemon is still going! New episodes and everything! Don’t always ‘adult’ be a kid, embrace it…
The point.
TV is full of reality TV shows and news and current affairs programs. They are delivered to you in a way that is designed to evoke an emotional response; and our strongest emotional responses are anger and disgust therefore these programs are designed to do create just that. That’s why they always end news programs with a cute little penguin slipping on ice or a skiing squirrel because they have been filling your mind with everything wrong with the world for the last 59 minutes they don’t you to leave emotionally drained, so instead they leave you with a final little emotional lift so that you will continue to come back next time.
So why does TV focus on the worst bits of us?
Because that is the kind of stuff that our minds are programmed to be drawn to, because being aware of danger, risk and fear 10,000 years ago would be the difference between life and death. But these were usually in the forms of imminent danger....not things happening on the other side of the world.
So do we need to spend so much time absorbing this crap? Or would it be better to take a load off, sit back and enjoy some mindless and innocent entertainment in the form of cartoons. Maybe it will make you a bit less cynical and sad about the world and a bit happier… like a child!
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