An old story says: If you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, the frog will immediately jump up and out, but if you put the frog in a pot of cold water, and slowly heat it up, the frog will get so accustomed to the heat that it will not realize it is boiling to death. A sad story indeed. Doesn't it make you think of what is happening to our society? The media present to you "bad" news every day, all the time: crime, deceit, shootings, dishonesty, lies, immoral facts and images, fighting, cruelty, injustice... Little by little, you are being desensitized towards the horror of such happenings, and are slowly brought to accept them as 'normal'. But they are not 'normal'. Yes, they happen, and maybe it's a truth that must be told, but it's the way they are presented that makes people indifferent, even cynical. Luring sensationalism is the culprit. Once you start considering as habitual and acceptable any aberrant occurrence, moral and ethics become obsolete. When moral and ethics become obsolete, minds and consequently life really start changing, and certainly not for the better.
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