I beliee the world is perfect because it does exactly what it was created to do.

The Tao or Way of the World is perfect. Humans do not follow the Tao though..at least VERY few. We think. Thinking creates opposites. Thus, perfect and imperfect. We go from the void or zen circle to the yinyang

Okay, so the world is perfect. Hooray.
It's thinking makes it unperfect. And we all think. (except for a handful--perhaps a couple thousand truly enlightened 'individuals'.) If we all think, then it ain't perfect no more.

We use it as an excuse to not go within because we are afraid that we will find out that we are "perfect, whole, and complete.".

Have you ever considered the possibility that people may use spirituality as an excuse not to engage the world? I don't necesarily believe that. But I think it may be true with many people.

Anthony Robbins sees those who go off into their own corner of the world and 'be spiritual' as selfish. Sure, they're gettin' happy. But they are evading their responsibility to humanity.

As Einstein said when querried by a reporter as to the meaning of life, "To help other people... yes... what other reason could their possibly be?"

And is television not just a manifestation of all the yuk that is already in us??

We all have sexual and aggresive drives left-over in the ole DNA. Consider them embers. Television fans and nutures those embers as the flames grow. These embers should be dying out as we evolve as a species, but they are not, because television has these ancient genetic codings on life-support.

Funny, from 1900 to about 1970, the opposite was thought to be true--Freud, with this Catharsis theory. That watching violent television saps our aggressive drive via vicarious experience or imagination. Would watching a pornographic film sap your sex drive? Pure bull..yet that view prevailed among the 'experts' for upwards of 70 years.

It is easier to blame the TV than to see that it's all in us--

I'm going to wager that when you began watching television, you were a wee lass. Television shaped an enormous part of your identity and the character attributes which you eventually took up--though you may not realise it. Children aren't knowledgable enough to know what the television is doing to them. We are spoonfed candy-coated crap without our knowing, and as the saying goes, gargage in, gargage out (GIGO is all I remember from my computer science dayze ) I've been pouring through oceans of research on the children and the media this semester. I grow continually disturbed. Television and children? There's no 'excuse' about it... television IS mind control and mind formation. I blame the television.

To change the world all you have to do is "change your mind".

Very true. But how functional is that belief? It serves you. But what about us?

just some food for thought.