“Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult….” -1984 by George Orwell
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...Or actual matters impacting the world. Just points out how immature
our society is (similar to what Epstein pointed out in his essay, "The Perpetual Adolescent") with it's sports obsession. People
just don't understand the level of destruction our mindless consumption
of resources has brought us! I mean McD's consumes around 1 million
pounds of beef... Well where does that beef come from? Thin air? That
million pounds of beef has to be fed
with around 3 million pounds of grain and how much land does that
require!? And that's just freakin McDicks! Just consider every fastfood
chain on the planet! And people have this wall in their head that
prevents them from ever putting two and two together to see the big
picture! A trend of ONE BILLION PEOPLE almost EVERY TEN YEARS!!! This
trend just emerging in the last 30/40 years! No one thinks of the
animals... No one thinks of the scale of what that sort of demand
requires.... and that's how our species ends... Too distracted with
B.S., like what football team is going to win the freakin Superbowl this
year. That's the damn wall!
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| And I do believe, that what I described, adds to this metaphor. |
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