It's only a matter of time before wrestling death matches are the main form of sport in the New Rome, with recruits from the prison ships or FEMA camps "volunteering" to fight in the arena, broadcast live on TV.

Roman Empire did pacify the plebs with sport. It is quite amazing how the present global corporate US empire uses the same tactics as the fading roman empire.All reason seems to have left peoples minds over the last couple of weeks with this brainwashing effect of football.At one time it was more or less impossible to watch even the most important football games when away from home tv.However it is now impossible to get away from this corporate media extravaganza without leaving the planet.Its just a pity that the people dont show the same concern over the nature of this totalitarian society in which we live.

Being in Britain at the moment, its depressing the degree to which chauvinism is increasing. its also going deeper into the population; for example, Jasmin Alabhai Brown (an Asian middle road commentator) is appalled at how her children are getting dragged into the England supporter scene. I too, find it odd how ethnic minorities could really take an interest in this faux-national sentiment. The England flag, a symbol of the medieveal era, has only been revived in the last five years or so as a response (or rather reaction, in all senses of the word) to the autonomy granted to wales and Scotland. I personally find it heartbreaking to see that years of struggle for black rights have only ended in the opportunity for them to go to Japan, cheer England, sing 'vindaloo', while refugees in desperate need are risking death in the channel tunnel.
So whats really going on ? With the defeat of the organised working class in the 1980s and the collapse of the USSr a decade ago, a kind of social liqudation has taken effect, of which Blairism is the prime ideological guide. Mostly Stalinist in origin, the Blairites have sized on the chance to liqudate the labour movement to the cause of free capitalism, and also to artifcially suspend all remaining barriers that exist in society, leaving the populace disorientated, broken up yet held together from outside, at the cost of terific internal tension. Certain social forms are seemingly promoted above the state, and thus above the population as a whole. The prospects for this kind of society are not wholesome. It maintains its rule in many ways, but ultimately through psychologism. One of the main targets is the few remaining voices who are not subordinated, including children, who simply are not conditioned ; note how they are now accused of being potentially heinous criminals by the age of five, yet constantly, we are told the state has to intervene to 'protect' them. there you have the essence of social dictatorship, Blairs neo-stalinism. Football is obviously another form of social manipulation.

Football is a great game. You don't have to go along with the flag waving nationalist shite to enjoy a game. You can watch football at any level from school games to internationals without getting sucked into that foreigner bashing crap. If you want to see a sport which at the highest level has been taken over by big business, have a look at the Tour de France next month. Every team owned by some large concern or other. Does that mean we all have to give up recreational cycling now because some marxist prick thinks were being ripped off or duped every time we change gear? No wonder these left-wing radicals are a joke among the real workers.