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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