THE PROBLEM WITH YOUNG BEARS AND THE MEDIA

This 104 year old bear was telling his young little bears that they should learn how to go about getting their own food. You have to be patient if you want to fetch your seal. But no, they wouldn't listen. They like to hang out with their cellphones trying to order a delivery of smoked salmon and pizza. Young bears! They are all hip-hopped and drink Coca Cola and they don't want to learn how to be self-reliant. I told them the story of the little pigs. Once, a long time ago, pigs were roaming free until someone left corn on the cob for them. So one little pig ate it and the next day he returned to see if there was more of it and voilà! he found more corn. So he told his friends about this amazing place where they could find lots of tasty corn. So he went there with his friends. They went once, they went twice, they went ten times. They got their bellies full and fat and wondered aloud if it was really necessary to keep searching for food as their parents did when they had access to this magnificent place to come and eat at their entire satisfaction. One day they went to eat, and when they wanted to leave, all swell and happy, they found themselves enclosed in a pig pen. Forever. So that is how they lost their freedom in exchange for comfort. And ever since then, they live in pig pens until they get slaughtered. I was telling the bear cubs that television works exactly the same way. One day they feed you an idea, an image, then you get used to it, and then you're fed another and another until one day you discover that you can no longer imagine things beyond the repertoire of images and ideas you were spoon-feed by the box. Instead of a bear with the power to imagine, you become a prisoner of someone else's imagination. And that's why humans don't do much about the Environment. Everyday they eat the corn of ideas fed by mainstream media.