September 25, 2017 by Isaac Davis
“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and
breed, their other activities were without importance… 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
Few things in American culture exemplify the fractured status of the
collective psyche quite like the popularity of the National Football
League (NFL). The NFL has become a de facto symbol of American freedom,
while in reality it performs the function of the Roman circus, keeping
the distracted from the extortion and crimes of state.
The NFL is
sponsored by major corporations and by the U.S. Armed Forces.
The games played in multi-billion dollar subsidized stadiums have
become patriotically charged events, where spectators conflate fighting
for freedom with watching games for entertainment. Men are told to pick a
team and go to war for that team. Fans of different teams are mortal
enemies. Military planes conduct fly-bys overhead, and participants are
apparently expected to stand for the national anthem.
The euphoria of football has political value. The sport is an
important program of deflection and subjugation of the natural male will
to protect community and to fight against foe if necessary. This
natural drive is captured and projected onto the tightly controlled
images of the league, its teams, and its players. Games are presented as
life and death struggles, while real-life issues are downplayed in
favor of this never-ending drama.
Author William Cooper talked about the importance of football and
other major league sports in a society where men must be pacified in
order for the government to continually abuse the populace. Cooper’s
perspective is that such enormous investment in the sport as a national
pastime serves to distract the people from important social issues,
deflecting blame away from the oligarchy for it’s contributions in
destroying real freedom. When men’s passions are levied on sport, they
pay little attention to the workings of the state, and have no gumption
to resist creeping tyranny.
“What
does the emperor do when the people have become restive, and when the
people are asking questions, or when the people don’t like the policies
of the emperor? He sends them to the circus. He creates a circus. He
builds a giant coliseum and he begins to throw the Christians to the
lions, and he has great chariot races, and football games, and
basketball games. All to keep the idiots preoccupied with things that
don’t mean anything in the scheme of the entire world. So that they
don’t have the time to learn what the truth is, so that they don’t ever
get smart enough to learn how they’re being manipulated. So that they
don’t ever question the emperor.” ~William Cooper
“When a hundred and fifty of the most powerful men and
women in the world can meet in secret… to plot the fate of billions, and
nobody even cares about it, but six football players go to lunch
together, and it’s in the headlines across the country, you have a
reflection of the society in which that exists. And it is a sick, sick
society that is doomed to self-destruction.” ~William Cooper
And now, as ‘
take a knee‘
protests have swept the nation, the NFL’s image has just been shattered
in a catch-22 of brainwashing and cognitive dissonance. What originally
started as a statement against the very real and destructive issue of
police brutality
has become a hysteria-fueled social movement and front page news.
People are destroying thousands of dollars worth of team branded
merchandise to demonstrate that complaints against the state will not be
tolerated.
Now,
the president has even chimed in,
adding fuel to the fire and doubling down on the notion that the
National Football League is first and foremost a patriotic organization.
In this country, and in this sport, the government is not to be
criticized. Not for brutalizing the citizenry with out of control
police, or anything else.
Final Thoughts
In a society as rigidly controlled by a monolithic, top-down,
know-it-all organization like the state, the archetypal energy of the
male is manageable only by suppressing man’s natural drive to protect
his community. This is how the elite have controlled men since the days
of the Roman Empire.
When
President Eisenhower left office,
he warned us that the U.S. was changing under the pressures of a new
world, and that a military industrial complex had emerged which would
pose a sincere menace to a free society. Fast forward almost 60 years
and his words are quite prescient.
“Now this conjunction of an immense military
establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American
experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is
felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal
government.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition
of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of
this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We
should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable
citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and
military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so
that security and liberty may prosper together.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower Walking Times
TECB April 28, 2019 
