My grandfather served in World War II.
My Dad worked in the Pentagon.
I was born in the 1970's and by the time I am an old man I will see the rise of China and India and a new Europe. The world will be much different than it was when I was born.
I was born into the days of the American empire and am part of the American one-world superpower system that began when my Dad was born. When my great-great grandparents were alive America had no empire.
But now it is fading and cracking in front of us.
The CIA used to be able to send a few guys armed with cash into a third world nation and bribe enough people to overthrow the government.
It did that in Brazil, Panama, and Guatemala.
Now it can't do hardly anything in these countries anymore.
And as far as the Middle East goes all we can do is bomb.
We can't bribe and build anything of count there.
You can see the signs of end of empire when it comes to the debt problems, the economic problems, and the endless wars that make no sense.
And the propaganda lies on TV that never stop.
They killed Kennedy. In the last year of his life he started to make deals with the Soviet Union, but others didn't just want the Cold War to keep going, but wanted to win it militarily.
And speeches like the one he gave to the UN in September, 1963 are not shown on the history channel:
But sometime in 1964 the belief in empire and the Cold War just peaked out.
.......and then they slowly nullified the Bill of Rights in the name of national security.
Today every single thing you do is tracked by the NSA - every email, every phone call, and every banking transaction.
Without privacy there is no private property.
And today instead of inspiring us to do good, our leaders teach us to fear and hate - and therefore to do nothing but obey.
This is a new form of "citizenship" as explained in the BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares:
The Power of Nightmares 1: The Rise of the...by GalaVentura
A few decades ago people thought the United States could do good in the world and people were inspired to join the Peace Corps and go to other countries to help people.
Today people hate the world and enjoy sitting in a movie theater and cheering on a sniper who shoots people off in other countries. Instead of doing they sit, and hate, and cheer. For some watching action movie war pornography is akin to a religious experience.
The movie theater is our modern day temple.
And so many people love to obey, because they feel so much at unease about the economy and their lives. Living standards have fallen as American industry has disintegrated over the decades and most people cannot live up to the standards presented to them on TV as being the perfect middle class life.
That causes them anger and makes them uncomfortable.
But there is nothing they can do.
So the leaders show them to hate the rest of the world and transfer their anxieties on to the enemies overseas. So everyone cheered when the Iraq war came and the masses loved it.
Then it turned sour and the stock market crashed.
But the Fed made QE and forced the stock market up and as long as it goes up the rich don't care what happens to the country and how further in debt it goes.
And the poor got food stamps and welfare in return and everyone still has the bread and circuses of TV and movies to make us feel like we belong.
And sports - don't forget about sports.
And for the latter there is nothing like the cultural impact of Football.
But is Football going to peak too?
Yes says this writer:
And the NFL players work hard. But their time is coming to an end.
That's right, in my lifetime football will jump the shark. You love it because of the colors, it gives you someone to root for, something to believe in, along with real drama. But the story of this Super Bowl is not Deflategate, but Bryant Gumbel's expose on the '85 Chicago Bears on HBO's "Real Sports." When even Mike Ditka says he wouldn't let his kid play football, you know it's over.
But NBC runs these ridiculous NFL image-burnishing ads as if we all believe. But the truth is one of the highlights of the telecast was the Bud Light commercial with human Pac-Man. That's right, it's video games that have a stranglehold on young men, not football.
But what we had was endless car commercials, when the truth is the younger demo doesn't care about cars.
And a Coke ad when the truth is the younger generation has abandoned soda pop.
And a McDonald's ad wrapping its arms around an America that's rejected it.
Watching the Super Bowl is like viewing a documentary on how it used to be.
And the commercialism is insane. The University of Phoenix Stadium?
The University of Phoenix should be put out of business. It preys on veterans, getting the government to pay for useless educations that don't result in degrees but a ton of debt. But can Al Michaels speak to that?
OF COURSE NOT!
Because he's paid.
And there you have it. Players and commentators, beholden to the man.
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Perhaps it is just human nature as it is now for people everywhere to worship their leaders no matter who or what they do?
This is North Korea:
It feels comforting to be a part of the crowd. And this is why it is so difficult to stop believing in the bull market when everyone you know is bullish and believes that it will go up forever.
There is safety in numbers. When you stay in the crowd you run no risk of being rejected by the crowd or smeared by them. The only risk you run is going over a ledge, but that only happens if they walk over it.
Perhaps in a thousand years people will learn enough to evolve and escape the satanic structures that control their lives. Once enough people do this then man will be free to treat each other like men and not like animals. They no longer will have to blindly follow the herd and the orders of their leaders, but will be able to believe in themselves and what they have to offer one another. Today's power elite leaders are marching everyone to the path of nihilism. Every day fewer people really believe, but they follow anyway.