Anyone who knows me knows I'm not much for consumerism. But the all-encompassing market blitz finds something you like. Consumers have to eat, be sheltered, get transportation.
But since the election, things have been sucked out. Sports are virtually meaningless to me. If not a guilty pleasure, at least a guilty distraction, their vacuous jingoistic patriotic displays once per quarter tolerated as a cost of admission. Now they are darkly ominous, even moreso that when in the depths of the Iraq War and it's mendacious justifications. Sports have always been propaganda, but they were just crude propaganda for a more or less functioning democracy.
Sports are no longer that. They are fascist propaganda, as long as the troll is in office. The national anthem is now an anthem of hate. The flag is a symbol of hate. Professional sports are gladitorial distractions from the construction of a fascist regime. The dumb day-to-day soap opera drama of sports isn't just totally overshadowed by the exigent threat, it is a part of the ignorance machine that feeds the disease. I don't know how I could be on a sports team now and not kneel at the anthem. Trump is a permanent stain on our escutcheon.
Facebook implores me with distractions: clickbait, which sometimes would find something, somehow to get me to look at in boredom, now is just a glaring example of the totality of the downfall of the fourth estate. Marketing campaigns for fall fashion or cars... just empty consumerism that will feed the fascist system. I'd rather it starved.
Maybe this is what wartime rationing is. I know I have to prepare for bad times. Luxuries are weakness and a distraction. All those paranoid white separatists holing up in their farms with guns and survival gear because Federal Obama was going to Communist their Rectums With Obamacare... well now it's real. Should I get the biggest assault rifle that I can fit through the gun show loopholes? Reverse engineer a homemade TOW missile? Figure out some way to counter modern air power with pocket lasers or drones? Learn how to be a sniper?
I think mostly I want to make the NFL feel the pain. It already has suffered a massive drop in ratings. It will probably go back up with the election being over, but it would be amazing if people felt the same emptiness I do about such trivial blather now. The NFL is the true religion of white conservative america. It's even the classic boondoggle: governments are forced to shell out money to these people's religion rather than clothe or educate the poor. And it's usually urban, local money that gets used, so the rurals and suburbanites can drive it, drink and piss and scream, and then leave. It's the lifeblood of modern television for the stupids. It moralizes might versus right, not giving a shit about other people except your own, win at any cost so you can high five your bros, social darwinism, etc.
But since the election, things have been sucked out. Sports are virtually meaningless to me. If not a guilty pleasure, at least a guilty distraction, their vacuous jingoistic patriotic displays once per quarter tolerated as a cost of admission. Now they are darkly ominous, even moreso that when in the depths of the Iraq War and it's mendacious justifications. Sports have always been propaganda, but they were just crude propaganda for a more or less functioning democracy.
Sports are no longer that. They are fascist propaganda, as long as the troll is in office. The national anthem is now an anthem of hate. The flag is a symbol of hate. Professional sports are gladitorial distractions from the construction of a fascist regime. The dumb day-to-day soap opera drama of sports isn't just totally overshadowed by the exigent threat, it is a part of the ignorance machine that feeds the disease. I don't know how I could be on a sports team now and not kneel at the anthem. Trump is a permanent stain on our escutcheon.
Facebook implores me with distractions: clickbait, which sometimes would find something, somehow to get me to look at in boredom, now is just a glaring example of the totality of the downfall of the fourth estate. Marketing campaigns for fall fashion or cars... just empty consumerism that will feed the fascist system. I'd rather it starved.
Maybe this is what wartime rationing is. I know I have to prepare for bad times. Luxuries are weakness and a distraction. All those paranoid white separatists holing up in their farms with guns and survival gear because Federal Obama was going to Communist their Rectums With Obamacare... well now it's real. Should I get the biggest assault rifle that I can fit through the gun show loopholes? Reverse engineer a homemade TOW missile? Figure out some way to counter modern air power with pocket lasers or drones? Learn how to be a sniper?
I think mostly I want to make the NFL feel the pain. It already has suffered a massive drop in ratings. It will probably go back up with the election being over, but it would be amazing if people felt the same emptiness I do about such trivial blather now. The NFL is the true religion of white conservative america. It's even the classic boondoggle: governments are forced to shell out money to these people's religion rather than clothe or educate the poor. And it's usually urban, local money that gets used, so the rurals and suburbanites can drive it, drink and piss and scream, and then leave. It's the lifeblood of modern television for the stupids. It moralizes might versus right, not giving a shit about other people except your own, win at any cost so you can high five your bros, social darwinism, etc.
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