What is it about negativity that draws people in?

Question

For instance, our news channels reports a lot of negativity like murders, rapes, robberies, etc. The music that we listen to is full of hate for women, sometimes hatred of another race, cuss words, and everything else gone bad.

Our movies are filled with violence and sexual explicit content, and so is our video games.

There is more to big said about the amount of negativity that we consume everyday, and that's all out side sources.

What about the negativity that we experience at home, work, school, and the depression that we sometimes can feel about ourselves.

But getting back to my main question, why is it that people are draw to these ills in our society? Why is negativity so predominated in our society?

Why can't are new stations report good news more than bad? Why can't our music, movies, and video games, have less violence and sexual explicit content?

And lastly but most important, why are people in our societies and others around the world drawn to negativity?

Answer 1

its so easy.... destruction is so easy,it hardly requires any effort on our part.To turn things up and around postively takes effort and work.

Answer 2

Look, you're not the first person to ask this.

The answer is simple, really.  We hate the bad things that happen in our own lives.  Therefore, we search for an escape from our own reality.  One way out is to look at the negatives in someone else's life.  We then feel better about ourselves.

Haven't you ever seen a murder victim and said, "Thank God that's not me or anyone I know"?

We would rather have the satisfaction of being better than someone.  We would rather pity than be pitied.

We hate seing other people being happy.  It invokes jealousy, the worst emotion.

Answer 3

I was just thinking the same thing.

Answer 4

Cause negativity makes things more interesting that draws our attention.  It's like watching a trailer for a horror movie and people want to know what happens.  Something like that.  Most people dont want to see their own negativity but only the negativity of someone elses because they think it'll never happen to them and that they find it interesting.

Answer 5

The real reason is that we all secretly worship Satan.  

But on a more serious note, negativity is just s**y.  The human mind is more fascinated by mortality, destruction, sexuality, and violence.  We are carnivores that don't kill our own food.  We are sexual beings that are not allowed to freely express our sexuality.  I believe the root of our morbid obsessions are that we must repress everything contrary to our base nature.  In order for civilization to exist, there must be civility, and laws.  And we are social beings.  But we are also just as barbaric as we were in caveman times.  Look no further than a riot or a public demonstration gone awry to see the brutal force of humans.

So why negativity?  For the same reasons that children swear at a young age.  They know it's wrong, but it feels good to do it.  Will I get away with this "wrong"?  Will there be consequences?  Why is it wrong in the first place?

That's the real question here.  Morality has impinged on our ability to use our senses and emotions, to truly express and feel what we wish.  Because of this, the repressed dark side of us is unable to be in balance with our good will.  So it sits silently, awaiting a lapse in control, or a time to trick the mind into going into action.

I don't find it hard to perform good acts, but the rewards are often intangible.  It is harder to get satisfaction in donating blood to save a life than it is to shed the blood of someone who has wronged you.  The rewards for good behavior often are not physical in nature, and only pay-off in the future.  

I would write more, but I feel that is enough of an opinion for the others to digest at this time.