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.