I often hear people complaining about how many bad news are there in the newspaper, on the news in general, and how better would it be if we could hear only good news; journalists and reporters, people are tired of bad news!
After, though, I see the same people in an elevator. Only two of them are talking, as commonly happens, while everybody else is just hearing, yet not listening to them. I am enjoying some music, so mine is just a vision: all I can see is a crowd of people in a space too small to fit it all, and a couple across from me, moving their lips as they were chewing a spicy gum.
And then something funny happens, in a split of a second I find myself looking at huge Chrome bags, hooded backs, and different kinds of hair resting on spinning shoulders! I take off my earphones and there it is, the couple pulled the net and captured the fishes: "Yeah, and thank God I decided to change route...on the BART I was supposed to catch that morning, there had been two shootings!"
The bad news got them all, at once!
Predicting the reactions I put my earphones back but it is too late, the moving box has already been transformed into a small tree swarming with cicadas, noisy and persistent, happily faded by the beautiful sound of trumpets, drums, and arches echoing in my rivers, gentle streams nourishing my body.
I came to the conclusion that people actually like (?) bad news, they're part of the human needs, as Tony Robbins would probably agree.
In this newspaper all the negative news articles have been carefully cut out. While in theory this should leave only positive news for us to enjoy, it in fact leaves little more than a wealth of advertising.
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