--- In [email protected], ffia1120 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061214/india_nm/india280322 > > Or click on "Most Popular" news stories on Yahoo and scroll down a bit. > > I remember seeing a story about this many, many years (10 or so) ago on > 60 Minutes. > > I guess the consciousness of the world is still at a very, very low > point... > > Why can't the TMO send the pundits back to India and ask them to > put their attention on putting an end to this practice? > > I know this is going to sound terribly sarcastic but I am going > to say it anyway -- The TMO: "The U.S. stock market is hitting > record levels -- the age of enlightenment is upon us!" > > I just don't get their priorities. What am I missing here?
The TMO has always cited the stock market as an easily trackable measure of general optimism and positivity, not because the state of the stock market is important in and of itself. In turn, rising optimism and positivity are seen to be characteristic of increasing "coherence" in mass consciousness, said "coherence" being the nature of enlightenment. Greater coherence in mass consciousness is expected to "trickle down" to help resolve specific problems in the world--of which, of course, there is a huge number. Focusing the pundits' attention on one specific problem might help solve *that* problem, but a general increase in coherence would presumably work on all the problems at once. So the latter is the priority. That's the theory, at any rate. Whether it's valid is another story. But it isn't a matter of filling the pockets of stockholders per se being of a higher priority than saving the lives of female children in India.
