The World Psycho-Drama

So a 4 year old was thrown from the Westgate Bridge by her father. And the whole world is shocked and saddened, apparently.

Sorry, but I'm not. History is riddled with sadder things. History is awash with worse things man has done to man.

Why should I care? I didn't know the kid or the family. Why is the whole world shocked and saddened? Why do we hook into the world psycho drama so easily.

My theory is that we as people are now so self-focused that we make such tragedies all about ourselves. For instance, the idiot family who went to the base of the Westgate and gave thanks for their own two children. Aren't they missing the point, somewhat? It's not about you and your children, it's not about you and what misfortune may, or may not, befall you, it is about someone else's pain that has bought them to this tragic point.

Have any of these families, who are so busy wallowing about in their own fear contacted the mother and the two remaining children to give help? I doubt it, they are too busy lying down in their own fear and misery, enjoying thinking about themselves, enjoying making it about them.

Again I say, turn off the news reports, stop buying the newspaper and disassociate yourselves from the world psycho-drama, the constant tale of misery that is thrown at us to sell the news (making news moguls richer) and life will seem so much happier.

As Louise Haye says, You are what you think.