The Direction of Intention

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A few years ago Charlie was listening to the radio during his commute home. He heard a news report that the Supreme Court had just removed financial and reporting restrictions on political advertising.
When he got home he went straight to his television, unplugged the converter box (he had an old analog set and needed the box to read a digital signal), and took the box to the garage. In the garage, he took his hammer from the wall and smashed the converter box into bits.

He laughs when he tells this story (and his wife laughs, too – now). Charlie is a father. He said that day in the car he realized what kind of bile was about to pour into his house through the television and that if the Supreme Court was no longer interested in protecting him and his family from vicious untruth that he must do it. He said, “It was an election year. Do you know what kind of trash that ruling unleashed? I didn’t want that to be part of my home.” He told me that it was his responsibility to select what he let into his and his family’s consciousness.

Imagine what might happen if we took responsibility for what we let into our consciousness! What if, like Charlie, we took responsibility for keeping our space (inner and outer space) clean of propaganda, violent accusation, and baseless judgment? Who might we become if we smashed the converter box (literal and metaphoric) and refused to give misinformation any space in our lives?

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