The Blame Game

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy." -Wayne Dyer

I've noticed an annoying and disturbing trend lately.

In an attempt to stay informed and up on the current events of not only celebrity insanity/stints in rehab but also (and possibly more importantly) learning a wide range of what's happening in the world today, I've noticed there's not much substance out there. I know there's actual 'news' happening. Somewhere. But I can't for the life of me, find it.

The trend I find so disturbing is that 'news caster' (really a misnomer, should be called 'infotainers') are playing a little thing called 'the blame game'.

What happens on the news shows is that within seconds of hearing a problem, the newscaster will ask, 'Tell me something, whose fault is it that we're in this situation? Who did wrong here? We need to figure out who to blame so we can either give them a token punishment or move on to the next issue.'

I guess in our era of 24 hour news on many, many stations, instead of actually reporting what's happening, to stretch it out, we have to hear the inane blathering of hybrid news casters/talk show hosts/cultural critics/morons. The non-stop static of their voices is sort of like adding bread crumbs to ground beef to make a meat loaf . . . It makes the meat seem more substantial.

At this point, the news is mostly breadcrumbs. And they're stale. And the meat might be tainted. And I'm a vegetarian anyway.

And don't think I'm pitting one station against another. . . they're all doing it. With the one exception of Jon Stewart, whose comedy show transmits more actual news in 23 minutes than all the other stations combined give out in 24 hours, I'm over it.

So why is it that we are so hell bent on assigning blame all the time? When are we going to get to the point of assigning solutions? It's not 'who's to blame', but how can we get ourselves out of these messes and help turn lives around? Why can't that be our collective priority?

Well, there aren't very good ratings in triumph over evil. There are ratings in humiliation. There are ratings in searching for the bad guy and taunting him, but not in actually catching the bad guy and bringing him to justice. (I'm looking at you, Osama.) And whose fault is it that I chose to show the silliness of using blame to make things better by blaming them for the way they use blame.

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Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of wealthy prospects using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion techniques.

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