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Q : Golly, there are so many implications to all this, and I could talk with you about it forever, but I do want to look at some of the other items on that list, so that we can know what we're talking about as we seek to rouse ourselves from our long sleep—
For instance, you would have a hard time convincing a Highly Evolved Being that the constant stream of sounds and images you place before your offspring in their youngest years has absolutely no effect on their ideas about life, and therefore nothing to do with how your next generation creates its daily experience.
You, on the other hand, can’t admit that the increasing violence in your society arises, at least in part, from the continual onslaught of such images, because if you did, you would have to do something about it. And you think there is nothing you can do about it, so it is better to ignore it.
Q : Yes, we’ve talked several times now about television programs and movies and video games and Internet sites, and even children’s toys that depict—and even encourage our offspring to use as forms of “play’—enactments of violence, violence, violence at every turn.
Q : Some of us do the same thing with tobacco. Or a constant diet of unhealthy food. Or a lack of exercise. Or the societal values that drive our human experience toward constant conflict.
A : This business of looking straight at self-damaging behaviors and doing nothing about them is the mark of sentient beings who do not care enough about themselves, or do not understand enough about themselves, to do enough for themselves to stop the harm they are doing to themselves.