Wow. That was phenomenal. I stopped watching sports 20 years ago. Just an instinct that it was no good. Nice to see that instinct so throughly fleshed out in this analysis.
Very interesting. Certainly one of the things that has destroyed ‘sports’ is commercialization. For example, when the Olympics was all amateur competition it was (IMO) way more interesting, with the human interest stories regarding the personal and financial sacrifices made to get to that level. Today most of the competitors are getting paid to do what they do. I guess that doesn’t diminish their skill and dedicated, but it changes the entire equation. And don’t get me started on NIL…
Seems like most of his references (at least per your summary) have to do with sports that involve teams. I wonder what he would say about ‘individual’ sports. In other words, the only sports that have ever interested me (one exception*) are solo sports. Golf. Skiing. Sailing. Cycling. Sure there might be a ‘team’ involved in some of those by tallying the results of individual contests. But participating can mostly be done alone, and success or failure is determined by individual performance. And the competition is the participant against the clock, the course, the weather, and his/her mental state.
*I do admit to being a huge hockey fan back in the day. Growing up in Detroit if you weren’t a Red Wings fan as a kid, you were an outcast. LOL. I stopped paying attention 20 years ago.
Lastly, one thing not in the summary (so I don’t know if it’s in his write up) is TV and/or streaming and the impact these technologies have had on the ‘bread and circuses’ timeline.
My wife and I are both in our late 60s. We haven’t had a TV for more than 20 years. And we don’t have any streaming services. Hence there is no temptation to just waste some hours glued to the screen watching some meaningless contest.
I grew up in Detroit as well. One of my nieces liked the Red Wings so much, she, with her parents help, turned her room into a shrine to the Wings complete with framed jerseys and tons of memerobilia. The walls were painted team colors only. It was like that for about 5 years before she got tired of it. It was the weirdest thing I have ever seen in terms of fan worship, ever.
Funny. So we had two boys, who are now 36 and 32. But when they were 6 and 10, the Wings won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 40+ years in 1997. And then again in 1998. And again in 2002. And we had a pond behind our house. So it was a pretty organic happening, lots of pond hockey, lots of interest, lots of fun really. We even had 4 season tickets for the 97-98 season, which we won in a drawing at a store that sold nothing but Red Wings stuff. We saw a lot of hockey. So yeah we were pretty big hockey fans at one time. We all have great memories from those years, and it’s hard to argue against that.
Hey Moody, that's a great callout on the TV and streaming devices. That was not called out in the YouTube (YT) video, but you make a great point. In the summary/YT video, Orwell's book was mentioned as predictive programming, and the same can be said of Huxley. Huxley mentions drowning the masses in information - hence our TVs, mobile devices and more add onto this "bread and circus."
I'm in my 30s and I can appreciate your insight. I've written a lot about our modern day chains and I'll list them below, but seeing and hearing you and your wife with no TV, shows how you all are more disconnected than this fabricated reality than most. Thanks for this comment and your insight. Here are some links if interested:
Aww thank you for the kind words. I got a good laugh. We are definitely more disconnected than most. And before we ended up needing to return to deal with aging parents, we were really disconnected. So I’m 69 and my wife is 68 (I married a younger woman lol). We have lived on our sailboat for 12+ years. And prior to living aboard full time we spent about 6 months per year on the boat for years. When we moved out of our house and into a small apartment to get ready to go sailing we gave away most of our stuff. Including the TV. That was 20 years ago. Don’t even think about it.
We got in about 7-8 years of voyaging before needing to give that up and live in a marina. We could have a TV. But we don’t and likely never will.
I will check out the links you provided. Thank you again for your nice comments.
I never cared for watching sports so it hasn’t been hard for me to turn off . I have never understood the emotional hype for sports, concerts or Hollywood people . They are all just people and I’m not the one playing the sport so why would I identify with a team loosing or winning . It never made sense. I always thought I must be a little weird , but I’m very thankful for the way God created me and it has gotten me through Covid without getting all hyped about it . I’m actually a pretty charged up anti vaxxer now
I never enjoyed playing team sports...for all the reasons listed above. In H.S., I gravitated to individual activities (skiing, cycling, golf, etc.), and continue to do them to this day. I do like tennis and is fun with like-minded friends/family. There were many tears shed by adults trying to live their lost lives through kids like me that ended up hating the games they pushed on us in our youth.
Get outside...run, walk, hike, bike, garden, whatever brings you joy...do it for your health and enjoy G*d's beauty all around us. Leave the turkey's to their "bread and circuses", and keep fighting for you liberties.
Growing up the youngest of seven with four older brothers…duh! My brother rationalized the pLandemic because major league sports were cancelled and they would have a loss of revenue, so it must be true. I feel sorry for people who were coerced to take the shot because of their job, but I have no respect for those who took it in order to participate in their “bread and circuses”.
I guess you don't have any respect for me then, because I reluctantly took the initial pair of shots in spring 2021 so I could attend live music. But no more after that.
The problem I struggle with is trying to imagine a world, or even a society within the world, where people aren’t conditioned and manipulated in some way that serves the societal structure. Is it possible to have a structure that doesn’t involve hierarchies or class structures of some kind? Is it always going to be a compromise of some ideal? I can definitely see improvements but in the end I suspect we will always find disparities between people’s situations to criticize, perhaps this is a necessary evil to keep the species striving?
Born in France, living in Canada; when the hockey season starts and people start walking around wearing the jerseys of their favourite players, I call it the season of the imbeciles. I can’t wait for our local team to be disqualified so that we are spared the idiocy any longer. I have also felt that the dynamic of the need to win against another team was one of war mongering- the idea of “may the best team win” seems lost on most people. We had major riots when we lost the finals at the Stanley cup, but I’m pretty certain that there would have been riots if we had won too…
Took me a while to finish this, but I actually went and watched the Youtube video as well as finished this article. Thanks for this and it truly was an eye-opener for me to the reality of this world. I'm going to feature it in my "Spiritual Sunday" Podcast: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/s/esoteric-wisdom
Like you, I followed sports and grew up on Soccer. As I came to the states, I "fell in love" (aka programmed) into the NFL, NBA and more. But as I began to awaken to the reality of the world, I began to see just how sports played into keeping us enslaved. I looked at it from a metaphysical perspective and what I found interesting was that
1) if I'm not mistaken as I'm going off memory here, both the NBA and the NFL were created by Masons (not saying Masons are bad, but there's some esoteric working here)
2) There was a great african american philosopher who made the connection to sports and sex (her name escapes me now). With sports, there's the ball (male energy) that needs to get into the hole/net, etc (female energy). In addition to all the propaganda, there's a subtle psychic energy at play here.
From the odd numbers on teams (11 in soccer and football, 5 in basketball), there's a metaphysical presence in the game of sports.
Can sports be good? Absolutely! Do I still engage in sports to this day? Yes! It's active, builds bonds with those we play together with and helps individuals perform better to win. All good qualities. However, when commercialized as MoodyP pointed out, and tainted by the elites, and transformed into a tool for control, this beauty of a game becomes one of our greatest enslavement tools.
Thanks for touching on this and I plan on touching more on this in the future.
"There was a great african american philosopher who made the connection to sports and sex (her name escapes me now). With sports, there's the ball (male energy) that needs to get into the hole/net, etc (female energy). In addition to all the propaganda, there's a subtle psychic energy at play here."
As Sigmund Freud is said to have said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar".
I find the sexualization of everything to be rather tedious.
There's just so much wealth and truth here that I'm commenting all the time. Here's another quote: "Both sports and other forms of entertainment pump fake life emotions through the "slave," allowing them to experience sensations of achievement and excitement vicariously. This satisfies their emotional needs without actually improving their life circumstances, effectively venting off potential for rebellion."
This ties in perfectly when I talk about the "Comfort Cage." Tying both ideas together, we live in this comfort cage and we get emotionally hits of achievement that makes us feel as if we're actually doing something in life... when in fact, we're only moving within the confines of the cage: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-comfortable-cage-of-our-modern
When you mention this phrase: "The two primary and most highly effective tools used to rule are poisoning and mind control" - one could argue, you're referring to the terms "democide" and "menticide" (killing the body and killing the mind): https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/democide-and-menticide
And shortly another false binary choice will present itself in the political arena, the contest of Trump v Kamala, team red vs team blue. About as real as pro wrestling and as vicious as a UFC cage fight, it will yet again provide distraction for the plebs while the real rulers go about their business of piling up even more wealth unseen and untaxed.
The cycle becomes tiresome doesn't it? I don't know a soul in material existence who can see that, even when it is pointed out that Mr T was a character in pro wrestling playing the same character as Mr T the politician.
Phew!! where to begin? Amazing truths succinctly put. What stood out for me was "Elites are weak", ain't that the truth. Pussy's actually, forgive the wording, think more, pussy cats. Get a gander at the puss Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab or Larry Fink. Zuckerberg, Musk, Obama, the Clintons. Ever notice the barbarian size of the men protecting these wusses?
I certainly agree with a lot of what he said, but there is a middle ground where someone can enjoy or participate in legitimate competition without losing one’s mind completely to the system. I’d like to think I’m one of those people. I can, and do, watch YouTube clips of Simone Biles (just a current example) and marvel at and appreciate her commitment to excellence, which, in my opinion, is something admirable. And watching Lawrence Taylor come up the middle or around the end and chasing down some quarterback back in the day…..amazing athletic ability, mental concentration….something I admire.
Sure professional sports are now pretty much an industrial behemoth squeezing every ounce of our attention and all of our dollars out of us, but it doesn’t have to be that way, at all, anymore than medicine could be about healing, although it is now about killing, and so on….
At the local level, Little League teams and pickup basketball games or hockey on the frozen pond are a way to strengthen communities, foster friendships and get some physical exercise as well…all good things.
On a side note, the absolute best system at controlling the masses that I have ever seen is the Brazilian system: a basic “income” for anyone needing, cheap and easy access to alcohol, no restrictions on sex (plus beaches, tropical fruit etc)…..no chance the “slaves” are going to revolt down there….
I used to play football and I enjoy watching skilful players play football and skilful managers organise teams. It's an unpredictable game too a lot of the time. I have noticed some people are almost dependent on football and spend way too much time on it but not everyone is like that. Do you think that anyone who enjoys watching any sport is part of the 'slave class'?
Wow. That was phenomenal. I stopped watching sports 20 years ago. Just an instinct that it was no good. Nice to see that instinct so throughly fleshed out in this analysis.
That's the best way of "knowing into things!" Trusting those instincts and watching them be right.
Very interesting. Certainly one of the things that has destroyed ‘sports’ is commercialization. For example, when the Olympics was all amateur competition it was (IMO) way more interesting, with the human interest stories regarding the personal and financial sacrifices made to get to that level. Today most of the competitors are getting paid to do what they do. I guess that doesn’t diminish their skill and dedicated, but it changes the entire equation. And don’t get me started on NIL…
Seems like most of his references (at least per your summary) have to do with sports that involve teams. I wonder what he would say about ‘individual’ sports. In other words, the only sports that have ever interested me (one exception*) are solo sports. Golf. Skiing. Sailing. Cycling. Sure there might be a ‘team’ involved in some of those by tallying the results of individual contests. But participating can mostly be done alone, and success or failure is determined by individual performance. And the competition is the participant against the clock, the course, the weather, and his/her mental state.
*I do admit to being a huge hockey fan back in the day. Growing up in Detroit if you weren’t a Red Wings fan as a kid, you were an outcast. LOL. I stopped paying attention 20 years ago.
Lastly, one thing not in the summary (so I don’t know if it’s in his write up) is TV and/or streaming and the impact these technologies have had on the ‘bread and circuses’ timeline.
My wife and I are both in our late 60s. We haven’t had a TV for more than 20 years. And we don’t have any streaming services. Hence there is no temptation to just waste some hours glued to the screen watching some meaningless contest.
I grew up in Detroit as well. One of my nieces liked the Red Wings so much, she, with her parents help, turned her room into a shrine to the Wings complete with framed jerseys and tons of memerobilia. The walls were painted team colors only. It was like that for about 5 years before she got tired of it. It was the weirdest thing I have ever seen in terms of fan worship, ever.
Funny. So we had two boys, who are now 36 and 32. But when they were 6 and 10, the Wings won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 40+ years in 1997. And then again in 1998. And again in 2002. And we had a pond behind our house. So it was a pretty organic happening, lots of pond hockey, lots of interest, lots of fun really. We even had 4 season tickets for the 97-98 season, which we won in a drawing at a store that sold nothing but Red Wings stuff. We saw a lot of hockey. So yeah we were pretty big hockey fans at one time. We all have great memories from those years, and it’s hard to argue against that.
Hey Moody, that's a great callout on the TV and streaming devices. That was not called out in the YouTube (YT) video, but you make a great point. In the summary/YT video, Orwell's book was mentioned as predictive programming, and the same can be said of Huxley. Huxley mentions drowning the masses in information - hence our TVs, mobile devices and more add onto this "bread and circus."
I'm in my 30s and I can appreciate your insight. I've written a lot about our modern day chains and I'll list them below, but seeing and hearing you and your wife with no TV, shows how you all are more disconnected than this fabricated reality than most. Thanks for this comment and your insight. Here are some links if interested:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-brave-new-world-of-1984-part
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-algorithm-was-designed-to-consume
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/help-i-want-to-get-off-my-phone-but
Aww thank you for the kind words. I got a good laugh. We are definitely more disconnected than most. And before we ended up needing to return to deal with aging parents, we were really disconnected. So I’m 69 and my wife is 68 (I married a younger woman lol). We have lived on our sailboat for 12+ years. And prior to living aboard full time we spent about 6 months per year on the boat for years. When we moved out of our house and into a small apartment to get ready to go sailing we gave away most of our stuff. Including the TV. That was 20 years ago. Don’t even think about it.
We got in about 7-8 years of voyaging before needing to give that up and live in a marina. We could have a TV. But we don’t and likely never will.
I will check out the links you provided. Thank you again for your nice comments.
NIL? Another acronym that puzzles me. Of course I've been known myself to use acronyms that readers don't understand.
I never cared for watching sports so it hasn’t been hard for me to turn off . I have never understood the emotional hype for sports, concerts or Hollywood people . They are all just people and I’m not the one playing the sport so why would I identify with a team loosing or winning . It never made sense. I always thought I must be a little weird , but I’m very thankful for the way God created me and it has gotten me through Covid without getting all hyped about it . I’m actually a pretty charged up anti vaxxer now
I never enjoyed playing team sports...for all the reasons listed above. In H.S., I gravitated to individual activities (skiing, cycling, golf, etc.), and continue to do them to this day. I do like tennis and is fun with like-minded friends/family. There were many tears shed by adults trying to live their lost lives through kids like me that ended up hating the games they pushed on us in our youth.
Get outside...run, walk, hike, bike, garden, whatever brings you joy...do it for your health and enjoy G*d's beauty all around us. Leave the turkey's to their "bread and circuses", and keep fighting for you liberties.
Growing up the youngest of seven with four older brothers…duh! My brother rationalized the pLandemic because major league sports were cancelled and they would have a loss of revenue, so it must be true. I feel sorry for people who were coerced to take the shot because of their job, but I have no respect for those who took it in order to participate in their “bread and circuses”.
I guess you don't have any respect for me then, because I reluctantly took the initial pair of shots in spring 2021 so I could attend live music. But no more after that.
I’m sorry and I am happy you stopped.
This is spot-on: "Slaves don’t like being told they are part of the “slave class.”
The problem I struggle with is trying to imagine a world, or even a society within the world, where people aren’t conditioned and manipulated in some way that serves the societal structure. Is it possible to have a structure that doesn’t involve hierarchies or class structures of some kind? Is it always going to be a compromise of some ideal? I can definitely see improvements but in the end I suspect we will always find disparities between people’s situations to criticize, perhaps this is a necessary evil to keep the species striving?
Born in France, living in Canada; when the hockey season starts and people start walking around wearing the jerseys of their favourite players, I call it the season of the imbeciles. I can’t wait for our local team to be disqualified so that we are spared the idiocy any longer. I have also felt that the dynamic of the need to win against another team was one of war mongering- the idea of “may the best team win” seems lost on most people. We had major riots when we lost the finals at the Stanley cup, but I’m pretty certain that there would have been riots if we had won too…
Took me a while to finish this, but I actually went and watched the Youtube video as well as finished this article. Thanks for this and it truly was an eye-opener for me to the reality of this world. I'm going to feature it in my "Spiritual Sunday" Podcast: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/s/esoteric-wisdom
Like you, I followed sports and grew up on Soccer. As I came to the states, I "fell in love" (aka programmed) into the NFL, NBA and more. But as I began to awaken to the reality of the world, I began to see just how sports played into keeping us enslaved. I looked at it from a metaphysical perspective and what I found interesting was that
1) if I'm not mistaken as I'm going off memory here, both the NBA and the NFL were created by Masons (not saying Masons are bad, but there's some esoteric working here)
2) There was a great african american philosopher who made the connection to sports and sex (her name escapes me now). With sports, there's the ball (male energy) that needs to get into the hole/net, etc (female energy). In addition to all the propaganda, there's a subtle psychic energy at play here.
From the odd numbers on teams (11 in soccer and football, 5 in basketball), there's a metaphysical presence in the game of sports.
Can sports be good? Absolutely! Do I still engage in sports to this day? Yes! It's active, builds bonds with those we play together with and helps individuals perform better to win. All good qualities. However, when commercialized as MoodyP pointed out, and tainted by the elites, and transformed into a tool for control, this beauty of a game becomes one of our greatest enslavement tools.
Thanks for touching on this and I plan on touching more on this in the future.
Nice! Perspective seems to be the key...know what's going on around you so you're not sucked into the divide.
"There was a great african american philosopher who made the connection to sports and sex (her name escapes me now). With sports, there's the ball (male energy) that needs to get into the hole/net, etc (female energy). In addition to all the propaganda, there's a subtle psychic energy at play here."
As Sigmund Freud is said to have said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar".
I find the sexualization of everything to be rather tedious.
a brilliant presentation. thank you.
There's just so much wealth and truth here that I'm commenting all the time. Here's another quote: "Both sports and other forms of entertainment pump fake life emotions through the "slave," allowing them to experience sensations of achievement and excitement vicariously. This satisfies their emotional needs without actually improving their life circumstances, effectively venting off potential for rebellion."
This ties in perfectly when I talk about the "Comfort Cage." Tying both ideas together, we live in this comfort cage and we get emotionally hits of achievement that makes us feel as if we're actually doing something in life... when in fact, we're only moving within the confines of the cage: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-comfortable-cage-of-our-modern
When you mention this phrase: "The two primary and most highly effective tools used to rule are poisoning and mind control" - one could argue, you're referring to the terms "democide" and "menticide" (killing the body and killing the mind): https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/democide-and-menticide
And shortly another false binary choice will present itself in the political arena, the contest of Trump v Kamala, team red vs team blue. About as real as pro wrestling and as vicious as a UFC cage fight, it will yet again provide distraction for the plebs while the real rulers go about their business of piling up even more wealth unseen and untaxed.
The cycle becomes tiresome doesn't it? I don't know a soul in material existence who can see that, even when it is pointed out that Mr T was a character in pro wrestling playing the same character as Mr T the politician.
Best sports chant ever? Why, it's "LET'S GO BRANDON"!!!
Phew!! where to begin? Amazing truths succinctly put. What stood out for me was "Elites are weak", ain't that the truth. Pussy's actually, forgive the wording, think more, pussy cats. Get a gander at the puss Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab or Larry Fink. Zuckerberg, Musk, Obama, the Clintons. Ever notice the barbarian size of the men protecting these wusses?
I certainly agree with a lot of what he said, but there is a middle ground where someone can enjoy or participate in legitimate competition without losing one’s mind completely to the system. I’d like to think I’m one of those people. I can, and do, watch YouTube clips of Simone Biles (just a current example) and marvel at and appreciate her commitment to excellence, which, in my opinion, is something admirable. And watching Lawrence Taylor come up the middle or around the end and chasing down some quarterback back in the day…..amazing athletic ability, mental concentration….something I admire.
Sure professional sports are now pretty much an industrial behemoth squeezing every ounce of our attention and all of our dollars out of us, but it doesn’t have to be that way, at all, anymore than medicine could be about healing, although it is now about killing, and so on….
At the local level, Little League teams and pickup basketball games or hockey on the frozen pond are a way to strengthen communities, foster friendships and get some physical exercise as well…all good things.
On a side note, the absolute best system at controlling the masses that I have ever seen is the Brazilian system: a basic “income” for anyone needing, cheap and easy access to alcohol, no restrictions on sex (plus beaches, tropical fruit etc)…..no chance the “slaves” are going to revolt down there….
I used to play football and I enjoy watching skilful players play football and skilful managers organise teams. It's an unpredictable game too a lot of the time. I have noticed some people are almost dependent on football and spend way too much time on it but not everyone is like that. Do you think that anyone who enjoys watching any sport is part of the 'slave class'?