Post date: Jun 5, 2015 2:07:17 AM
Do you own the emotions which you feel?
There are corporations that profit from every emotion you feel, regardless of the impetuous of those emotions. If you spend any hours per week on a social media site, then that site is trying to profit from your attention. By engineering content from your social connections that make you feel you will be more likely to spend time on the site. The more time you spend on the site the more likely you are to see and click advertisements. The social media site makes money by selling your attention, and people who want to guide your actions (votes, purchases, charitable donations, etc.) are willing to spend money to buy your attention.
Your emotions guide your attention therefore people are spending considerable resources figuring out how to manipulate your emotions.
Each time you interact with the communication media of our civilization your emotions are guided, bought, and sold. When you feel some kind of way, especially if it is a strong emotion, check carefully that your emotion is organic and in line with your own intentions lest someone manipulate you into a course you did not set and do not like.