34. Program your biocomputer
If you’re a regular consumer of the major news programs, you belong to a very persuasive and hypnotic cult. You need to be deprogrammed. Start by altering how you listen to electronic radio gossip, the news, and shock and schlock TV shows. Program out all the negative, cynical, and skeptical thoughts that you now allow to flow into your mind unchecked when you hear the news. The news is not the news. It is the bad news. It is deliberate shock. The more you accept it as the news, the more you believe that “that’s the way it is,” and the more fearful and cynical you will become.
How do we change it? By worrying about it? No. Rather than fretting about crime and apathy and whatever you wish would change in the world, ...
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