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[matrixmann]

Whenever you keep seeing those big presentations and advertising of soccer events, you get the impression like the vision of a lot of dystopic SciFi authors or movie makers has come true: Shiny and glittering shows for the masses. Superstars to cheer at, heroes to believe in - and in the end, they're all created by some moguls that are kings of the mass media. For the purpose: To direct the view of the common people, to distract them or to get their looks to pay attention to the mass event presented which is not very much different from letting gladiators fight over their lives. They shall yell for their lives, think about nothing else except for that it's been a nice relief from everyday hard work or how they can become gladiators themselves, which they get shown in a way to perceive they're all paid with millions and a carefree life, everything to want and everything to look up at. And, what are they behind the curtains? Not the smartest, not the most moral, not the most honest - just a bunch of tragic figures which fulfill their task, but they're destined to realize only once they become too old to go on with that. Then the nature of their physical plague until that moment becomes obvious even to them.
But until then, new gladiators are found to take their places. And the masses go on yelling... Like, one or the other name, it doesn't matter. It's just some soccer players running for the amusement of some common people. Which somebody intended it for that it shall be this way.

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

I never got notifications about your posts, something is wrong with the stupid lj, I think Russian company now owns it and it is going to become a freaking mess and huge failure.

Now about sports: totally agree about gladiators, sometimes when you think about "american dream" one category that can become rich are athletes, they can pull some poor black person and train them because they are great athletes but at what price? They pretty much kill themselves. Run with concoctions and broken bones to keep show go on. And yes, it is a mass spectacle to distract people.

[matrixmann]

Er, for the last 3 entries this is my work if that's the case. Played around a little.

Yes, for the rest of the world, it will rather be the case with athletes at all. I only refered to soccer as that's like the most common sport over here which things mostly circulate around about.
I think for soccer it becomes the most visible through all that fuzz. How much of a show it is and how much the entertainment industry is busy with outbidding each other with million sums.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

I meant to say "american dream" for the whole world because it is sort of BS they try to sell as capitalism.

Besides looks like everything is rigged. Like that scandal with FIFA that they manipulated the outcome of the game. I honestly do not care about watching sports. At all.

[matrixmann]

Well, if you're interested or not, it's hard to get past soccer as a topic over here - and by that it's hard to pass by the sports topic on the whole and what capitalism turns it into.
But, I think the most you can see the purpose of "entertaining people to get them to stay silent", if you take a look at how events from that particular sport get presented to the audience in advertising, and, at all, how much soccer or "soccer stars" get used for advertising.
Maybe it's myself getting bored by it, or having other things that appeal to me; through my view on things I get to have the impression more and more like it's all just the usual shiny show that exists for keeping people at bay. That's it's one and only purpose besides "making money" (in capitalism terms: adding zeroes at the back of a number).
And that in way... it makes you wonder and get bored why people make such a great fuzz about it. Why people even brawl themselves over it, when their team's on the way of losing a game.