Chapter 18 Human-beings are the Animals to be Moved to Other People's Unhappiness and have a Jealousy to Other People's Happiness②

Namely when we use the media, we forget our distresses on usual lives with watching the news in unrelated matters for a change. Adding also, the matters we can gratify are the things of news rather downfall of idols than successful events of someone. Then in that chance we get the joyfulness with a chance to watch the downfall of idols as the onlookers or rubbernecks, bigger existence bigger emotion to despise. The difference exists between top news and not so ones rely on the curiosity to surprise on the news.
And the truth means that we can be joyful to others’ unhappiness and have a jealousy to others’ happiness and deliverers of news have a awareness of this facts utilizing its knowledge. The fact that we love our animals’ pet means that we know that they are poorer than us in the intellectuality. But successful persons’ existence is only the object of jealousy. Then delivering the downfall facts, media surely have a mind to dissolve a frustration of popular people.
The facts we are moved by the tragedies or so, on the dramas are not different from those facts to be pleased with watching others’ unhappiness. Therefore at now chance to see the downfall of successful persons, if they’re so surely successful, rather they’re the same of us and could get the peace of minds. Then the people to be aware of that to see those news with curiosity essentially has a characteristic of distorted mentality would hope to suppress the realization of merit of mass media. But often we enjoy the news unconsciously. This is the only method to dissolve the frustrations of our lives choosing the way to be cheated by the strategy of the mass media to control our curiosity subjectively.
When the former prime minister Shinzo Abe declared to resign, we felt so as our mentality. Mass media showed it with a feeling of us that Prime minister could be the same of us as average people. Rather we could get that feeling, because of our anticipation to him when he inaugurated the prime minister, and we enjoy the gap between our anticipation to him at the first time and closing aspect with satisfying the curiosity. We were enjoying the unhappiness to anticipated person at the first time. That was a facts we’ve never experienced at the regime of Koizumi period because of him experienced so hard severe days before the inauguration of the prime minister as we’ve known.