Thursday, June 20, 2013

Oh Say Can You See (the Conditioning)

What if all of the distracted sports fans of the world suddenly realized that there are actually important things in the world actually worth fighting for?  

     Think of all of that broadcasting real-estate on all of these networks, now devoted to middle-aged men in grey suits sitting around talking about OTHER men throwing and kicking balls around a field.  What if all those airwaves were suddenly freed up for use?

     What if all those pointless sports statistics and gossip filling the minds of so many men and women around the world were suddenly erased?  What could be done with all of that extra energy?

     What would millions of folks do on weekends if there was suddenly no games on to sit around idly drinking and arguing over?  What would these people do with their time and energy?

     What if government subsidies, trillions of consumer dollars, and all of the large scale sweat-shop merchandizing efforts related to the sports industry suddenly ended?  What ifbillions of dollars in sports contracts,salaries and merchandise  were suddenly freed up to be used for something with actual purpose?

     Huxley wrote that non-stop distractions of the most fascinating nature are deliberately used as instruments of policy, for the purpose of preventing people from paying too much attention to the realities of the social and political situation. 

     He said, "Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures. A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in their calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those would manipulate and control it.”

     
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     Some wonder how such an obviously corrupted government can get away with what it does.  Some wonder why duhMericans, even when made aware, continue to support and contribute to the terrible corporate travesties that endanger our entire planet and everyone on it.  Many wonder, why is it that the masses do not ban together and rise up to ―

- oh pardon me, the game is about to begin - Please stand for our National Anthem

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