Do the media live up to their responsibility in people’s search for spirituality?

Only in part. The media show the world’s suffering every day but rarely ask what causes it. The cause lies in a morality that applies only to one’s own people, and as long as morality does not apply equally to all human beings, the world stays caught in double standards.

Many people today are searching for the salvation of their souls. The media could help them, because they reach more people than ever before. Yet often they only describe the hypocrisy of society. Sometimes even the one who names it most clearly ends up giving in to his own ego once many people are listening to him. The search for the soul is really the question of the inner compass that tells a person what is right.

This is where the real problem lies. In today’s politics, morality mostly means loyalty to one’s own people. Whoever gains advantages for his country is seen as moral, even if he harms others to do it. Morality is then no longer a fixed value but a question of belonging.

This creates a strange double standard. People see children on television with hungry, swollen bellies and raise money for them in the name of humanity. But hardly anyone asks why they are suffering. Often their misery is a result of the very policies supported in one’s own name. One hand helps while the other causes suffering.

The two verses above show the way out. Justice must hold even when it goes against oneself or one’s own relatives, and even towards a people one does not like. Only when morality in this sense is absolute and the same for all human beings can the world heal. Media that ask this question honestly would truly live up to their responsibility.