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How The Elite Use Sports To Rule The Masses

“Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” ~ George Orwell [1984] “Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.” ~ Juvenal “When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: “Why do I care if my high school’s team wins the football game? I don’t know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me… why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense.” But the point is, it does ma…

Brave New World

“At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge? Does a majority of the population think it worthwhile to take a good deal of trouble, in order to halt and, if possible, reverse the current drift toward totalitarian control of everything? If the United States of America is the prophetic image of the rest of the urban-industrial world as it will be a few years from now — recent public opinion polls have revealed that an actu…

We Live in a Fake World

“If you want to wake up, the first thing you need to seriously consider is that you are asleep and everything you take as real is a dream.” ~ Adyashanti “Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.” ~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz, [Last Night I Sang to the Monster] “The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.” ~ John Lennon “#23. Fake Education” Everything is Fake: Top 40 Pieces of Fakery in Our World | Wake Up …

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