North Korea Launches Some Conflict

Like animals we humans like to defend out positions - even when they’re ridiculous. I don’t think it matters what we really believe - it’s all about conflict. That’s what the world is selling you in case you didn’t realize - they’re selling you conflict. In fact, when see a movie the principle element of that movie is conflict. Usually evil verses good or some offshoot of that principle. When you listen to some conservative talk show host talk about liberals with disdain - he or she is selling you conflict. What makes a sports rivalry great? The conflict creates the drama. Don’t we just love it when a fight breaks out at a baseball game? How about the show cops? Is it just the conflict that make us want to watch? So conflict sells as well as sex if not better. So what’s the problem with this? Well the problem is to varying degrees (based upon our genetic predispositions and environmental history) we humans are naturally aggressive. We are easily drawn in to conflicts (did you ever see a riot break out at a soccer game?). In fact, once we get started conflict is progressive. Take for (an easy) example the Middle East. I heard on the news today (it could have been any day) that more people were killed. Sadly today it was a 12 year old Palestinian girl. So there’s an inciting event and then more conflict and then another inciting event and then even more conflict and so on and so on. Conflict is naturally escalating and humans naturally escalate conflict. Did you ever get insulted? What was you’re first reaction? Were you ever robbed? What was your first reaction? When someone hurts us do we do the godly thing and forgive them or do we want revenge and satisfaction for what they have done to us? So the media (television, movie industry, news stations) are constantly selling us conflict almost like drug dealers. They’re preying on our genetic weaknesses and we fall for it like addicts. The Michael Savages and the Rush Limboughs of the world are really just connflict dealers and the people who call in to argue or side up are really conflict addicts. The news media not only sells you conflict it likes to show you pictures of the conflict so you’ll get even more hooked. Just picture a cocaine dealer showing you pictures of not the cocaine itself but what cocaine can make you feel like.
So we have all this conflict going on in the world and I have to wonder how the people in charge of selling it to you really feel about it? I mean without all this conflict what would they talk about? What would they sell us? I can picture some news media executive hearing the news about North Korea firing a few missiles and saying, “thank heavens, I thought they were going to back down”.