Assignment #3: The Media's Representation of Human Nature

I have recently started, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World by his holiness, The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D., and I am really enjoying it. The book captured my attention in the last chapter I read, titled, Human Nature Revisited, in how it discussed our view of human nature within our society. We tend to view our nature as being very aggressive and violent, however, as numbers referenced prove, we are not actually this way. Although human nature actually tends to be the opposite of this, human nature continues to be represented in this way on TV and in the news. After reading this, I immediately thought of  how our views might change if the media changed. What if instead of broadcasting thousands of negative stories that represented this negative view of human nature, media changed, and showed its viewers positive acts of human nature? In The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World, The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D., referenced a study that stated that there are thousands more acts of well-doing, rather than bad. If the media actually decided to represent what human nature is actually like, maybe we as humans, would be able to see ourselves more accurately and see the good within. What a positive impact the media could have on human's views of themselves and their behaviors! *Just a thought to think about*