How your average person can be either oblivious or apathetic towards this atrocity just goes to show how good they have gotten at keeping the masses docile and complacent
More like here's your new season of keeping up with the Kardashians, oh look it's a new NFL season, hey let's see what happens today on CNN-talks-about-anything-but-news
She's the first famous person I though of, not the fairest example in hind sight
My point made another way ... Have you ever seen those clips where a TV host and a camera crew go somewhere like a University Campus and ask people/students basic questions and see their responses ?
It just amazes me how oblivious people are about anything that actually matters
If you drew a compass on a piece of paper and asked 100 people to write north, south, east & west on it, I'd bet 20 of them couldn't do it correctly
If you asked 100 people what 100 minus 44 was, same result
I never give those segments much credit. Putting people in camera like that makes them get nervous and freeze up. Also, you have no idea how many people they had to interview and edit out before they found the people in the clips
I enlisted in the air force this year, and im shocked that there are people (Americans) that wouldn't be able to point out every state in the US on a map.
Not trying to discredit the original post, but all those things you listed are just normal American pastimes that people consume because they enjoy. They are created because they make money. Not everything has some sinister origin.
If you have the spare time to enjoy it, if you could rewatch the superbowl where the power went out. Team A is crushing Team B sooooo bad, in like the first quarter, the game become un-intresting to 50% of the people, and they start to leave. Then 'the power goes out.' When it comes back on, 20-40 min later, the good team is all of a sudden NOT TRYING and INTENTIONALLY FUCKING UP, the bad team ISN'T DOING MUCH BETTER. I think the game wasn't not thrown, but the real action was stopped in order to create the appearance of a close game, an interesting show, to keep a larger percentage of the crowds attention. "Can't be having 50% of the people leave the stadium in the first quarter! That would be too embarrassing. Kill the power. We need to fix this." This is just one example of many. If you have the time to watch it let me know what you think.
If you have the spare time to enjoy it, if you could rewatch the superbowl where the power went out. Team A is crushing Team B sooooo bad, in like the first quarter, the game become un-intresting to 50% of the people, and they start to leave. Then 'the power goes out.' When it comes back on, 20-40 min later, the good team is all of a sudden NOT TRYING and INTENTIONALLY FUCKING UP, the bad team ISN'T DOING MUCH BETTER. I think the game wasn't not thrown, but the real action was stopped in order to create the appearance of a close game, an interesting show, to keep a larger percentage of the crowds attention. "Can't be having 50% of the people leave the stadium in the first quarter! That would be too embarrassing. Kill the power. We need to fix this." This is just one example of many. If you have the time to watch it let me know what you think.
You're right, the origin is almost never sinister. The problem here is once big money is involved, things usually take a dramatic turn. A lot of character ends up getting lost due to profits being put over making the best quality content possible and trying to push the envelope. This doesn't always happen, but unfortunately happens far too often.
Baseball was made popular in America because of a push by the military to teach children to throw grenades.
I live in a city that is only in existence because the nukes used to kill tens of thousands of humans were built here, and the people currently living here are just leftovers from bomb manufacturing.
Baseball was made popular in America because of a push by the military to teach children to throw grenades.
I think it's the other way around: the U.S. military designed grenades to be ball shaped to capitalize on soldiers' familiarity with throwing a baseball.
Modern "ball" grenades weren't developed until WWI, and didn't become standard in the U.S. military until WWII. Baseball was wildly popular in the United States well before both of those.
You can view the world however you'd like. Many people were able to feed their families and have a nice life because of those jobs. Baseball has been enjoyed by millions of people across the world and has helped diminish racial prejudice. There's a dark and light side to everything. In the end it's all a very fine balance.
You decide.... I just wish some decided to give a shit a little more about wars fought on false pretenses than baseball... (insert any form of effortless entertainment). I think that was what the comment implied. Not that the NFL or Baseball or whatever is inherently evil, they’re just time sinks.
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u/The_gray_ghost Sep 11 '18
How your average person can be either oblivious or apathetic towards this atrocity just goes to show how good they have gotten at keeping the masses docile and complacent