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From Noam Chomsky on Divergence

[The corporate mass-media] serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce the basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc.

The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It’s unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what’s happening in the world.  In fact, it’s undesirable – if they see too much of reality, they may set themselves to change it.

From the Zen calendar, virtue steps in to save the day

The understanding of what you are, whatever it be–ugly or beautiful, wicked or mischievous–the understanding of what you are, without distortion, is the beginning of virtue. Virtue is essential, for it gives freedom. It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live.  Krishnamurti