Tikkun is a wonderful cross cultural progressive faith magazine. One of its contributors is the well know progressive Rabbi Michael Lerner. This month it has an article about the Three poisons - greed, ill will, and delusion as they have been institutionalized in our society.

If the article seems a little weird at first for a non-buddhist, then please get through the intro and get to the guts. It is worth the effort and is something that you don't need to be a Buddhist in order to understand. The principle is universal and relevant for all of us. One of the most interesting points is how delusion is institutionalized in our society through the media organizations.

Each of us lives inside an individual bubble of delusions, which distorts our perceptions and expectations. Buddhist practitioners are familiar with this problem, yet we also dwell together within a much bigger bubble that largely determines how we collectively understand the world and ourselves. The institution most responsible for molding our collective sense of self is the media, which have become our “group nervous system.” Genuine democracy requires an independent and activist press, to expose abuse and discuss political issues. In the process of becoming mega-corporations, however, the major media have abandoned all but the pretence of objectivity.