Distractions

What do I mean by distractions? well I think I mean the kind that are created to stop us from seeing something or to give us something else to do with our time and to direct our energies.

In one of my last posts I mentioned Scientology, I have since spent some time doing some research, looking at both sides, the scientology people themselves and the protestors against it. I didn't want to write anything more on the subject really, I decided that I had done my research and that now I would put that down and get back to other things. However I have found that there have been even more news reports on Scientology popping up lately and I found myself back to reading more about it. I realised that I was in a way I was being distracted from my other research and focusing too much on Scientology, it was so easy to lose myself in the videos and the websites of both for and against and I can't help but wonder if other people are being drawn in to the conflict this way?
I'll admit the whole thing is very intriguing from which ever side you look at.....but and I'm only putting this out there as purely my view on it all....but it's a distraction.
In today's world it is so hard to get by, talk to anyone or just listen to people they are all saying the same thing, things are crazy, we are being beaten down by taxes and prices and we're all getting very angry.

When people get angry they need to vent that anger, just look at the faces of people at a football match, you think that's just their anger about loosing that they're displaying? I think it's one of the reasons sport and most of the entertainment industry are such big things in our lives, if we didn't have these places to vent such energies as anger in a controlled manner we'd end up perhaps venting it through violence. (Of course many people still do that)
So in the case of scientology and the protests that go on around it, I can't help but wonder that perhaps even in part that people are using it as something to direct their anger about how the world is right now. Now I'm not talking about everyone who protests, I understand that there are some people with very good reasons to protest but there are some who I feel are either directing their anger in the wrong direction OR are being given something to direct their anger towards.

The more I look in to such things the more I learn that there are things that are created and staged as a distraction from other issues, be it news about a celebrity wedding with a tiny article hidden at the bottom about ID cards or far more sinister events. If we are distracted by one thing we are blinded to something else.
Although saying that, they are gonna need something pretty spectacular to distract everyone from the fuel prices.