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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

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[onb2017]

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]

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.