What social changes might implementation of Buddhist ethics bring about? For example, how would it alter adver

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Buddhist practice exposes desire as the source of suffering.

Desire is the wish for things to be different than they actually are. When desire appears, we are unsettled, ill at ease, and unhappy.

When someone practices Buddhist meditation, they can see clearly how desire manifests as attachment and aversion. And as these mind-habits become clear to us, they begin to fade away.

If everyone practiced Buddhist meditation, then advertising and marketing -- which fundamentally seeks to produce desire -- would begin to lose their role as influences in the culture.

Most television programming is simply an extension of advertising and marketing (these pay the bills) and these programs would probably give way to more reality-based programming (NOT reality TV, though).

Buddhism trains practitioners to observe the truth and act within the truth. The name for that is Great Love. Sadly, modern culture has little interest in Great Love; it only supports the small love of self-concern.