¶ News & Evolution (1)
← News | News & Evolution (2) →
Index Entry
News & Evolution:
"Daily news is a major ingredient of human evolution. Advertising alone provides the economic sustenance of the western world’s news media. The magnitude of paid-for advertising received by each news media is directly proportional to the number of its buying readers. News media management searches for the type of news that sells the best. Year after year the publishers find that ‘bad’ news attracts the most paying readers–possibly because the readers can congratulate themselves on not being the unfortunate ones. Whether or not this is the right explanation, it is a demonstrable fact that powerful economic sustenance for negative voices exists. Though the majority of humans are born positivists, popular acknowledgement of the effectiveness of their expressions is difficult to come by, and has little or no economic support. Positivist poets are proverbially poor.
“While there are many positively committed institutions–religious, academic, and political–we are considering here only the few independently thoughtful, positive individuals alive today whose work has come to be generally recognized in this era of billions of humans integrating into a common world culture, in contradistinction to the few millions of”
