Jay Doubleyou: bread and circuses
But is it 'scientificically-crafted mental illness?
For the ancient Romans, killing wild animals is fun.
Bread and circuses - YouTube
Do spectator sports have an inherent value, bonding communities, giving people the sense of being part of something larger than themselves, and providing a diversion from the woes of the world? Or, as Alex Jones suggests, does following sports teams dull the mind, waste the taxpayers' money and distract attention from issues that genuinely DO affect people's lives?
Are Sports the True Opiate of the Masses? - YouTube
Are we just enslaved?
Here Jason Christoff describes the ancient and occult use of sports in regards to how the elite rule the masses. Sport is popular because it holds extreme benefit for the ruling elite and this is why the elite support sports, with no expense spared.
Jason Christoff - How The Elite Use Sports To Rule The Masses - YouTube
It's sport and politics:
Tell me the Truth about Sports
Dominic Hobson: Sport is a Zero Sum Game
Writer and entrepreneur Dominic Hobson argues that organised, competitive sport damages - rather than builds - the character of players and spectators alike. In common with war, Dominic condemns it as a zero sum game: what one side gains, the other loses: "Rich in triumphalism, disdain and pride".
"I still recoil in horror from the behaviour of the parents, let alone the players, when my oldest son played for a youth football team in south London," he says.
Tell me the truth about sport:
HG Wells on sports arenas:
Orwell: "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence."
prolefeed: the steady stream of mindless entertainment to distract and occupy the masses
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Postman distinguishes the Orwellian vision of the future, in which totalitarian governments seize individual rights, from that offered by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, where people medicate themselves into bliss, thereby voluntarily sacrificing their rights.
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Postman distinguishes the Orwellian vision of the future, in which totalitarian governments seize individual rights, from that offered by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, where people medicate themselves into bliss, thereby voluntarily sacrificing their rights.
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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