I’ve never watched a whole Super Bowl because I have a basic eduction and a reading age above 12, but I was thrilled that TVNZ felt NZ was a special enough member of the Washington Consensus to livestream the latest Super Bowl LVIII.
I knew this was an important Super Bowl because Fox News told me Deep State agent Taylor Swift was about to launch a deep fake attack on American Democracy and Donald Trump.
Super Bowl LVIII was an American Orgy of Late Stage Capitalism that didn’t disappoint.
As the Gladiators gather for Corporate Ceaser, it’s the little rituals that allow you to ignore a real time ethnic cleansing war crime by one of your closest allies. Watching the team members roll up in design clothing more expensive than my tertiary education is humbling and exhilarating at the same time, the perfect meritocracy of ability and profit return.
The Good Bloke Award handed out to the player who can make everyone forget about all the abusive NFL players who bash their partners and dog fight.
The Black National Anthem ceremony felt like an enormous attempt to gloss over the way they hounded Colin Kaepernick out of the game.
The Cheerleaders are all PornHub hot and Corporate Hollywood salutes corporate Sport with a song about America being great, which at this stage seems like a projection rather than a description.
The Military Industrial Complex accompanying Star Spangled War Chant complete with Jet Fighter fly over is so weird, they may as well roll out a nuclear bomb and collectively masturbate over it.
The game hasn’t even started yet.
Ok, so the game is on, it’s very data driven for all the sports betting taking place. It is short periods of action mixed with vainglorious rooster strutting afterwards.
Corporate Hollywood representative Taylor Swift is there helping broaden sales by accessing the all important boss babe female audience. You go girl feminism never looked so profitable.
Usher reminds everyone how great a dancer and singer he is. Usher was last relevant in the early 2000s which was when America was universally loathed after invading Iraq, so he’s a prefect choice. Lil John was the best guest of the evening.
The adverts are as important as lube at the Orgy of late Stage Capitalism, and this years selection spoke volumes of where America is at as it spirals into fascism under Trump.
Oreos, a website design company, an electric BMW, an electric Kia, Silk protein almond milk and broken Avengers, Beyonce, doughnuts, online content, a face moisturiser, Mountain Dew and Mr T.
Sounds like the perfect line up for Late Stage Capitalism.
Game goes into overtime, Taylor Swift’s boyfriend’s team wins.
America can’t provide free education, free health or global leadership, but they sure as hell throw a great Colosseum spectacle.
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So you’ve seen ‘Idiocracy’ then?
“I’m gonna fuck all y’awl! ”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
The Superbowl is opium for the masses.
This is Bread & Circus Martyn, just as the Roman Empire provided distraction for the Masses with the Gladiator Games at the Colosseum, the US Empire provides the same distraction to its Masses with a Gladiatorial contest between two opposing Teams, it’s a ridiculous distraction to promote the Empire as something every Nation can admire & aspire to be like, but it’s this very distraction that is masking the collapse of the US Empire, it’s in it’s death throes, that is obvious when you see the evidence taking place around the World, America is a Nation in collapse, plagued with massive internal infighting & geopolitical problems, just like the Roman Empire, it’s on the verge of disaster, it has overextended itself in ludicrous Foreign Adventures & Wars, just like Rome did & debased its currency, exactly like Rome, these two things are the telltale sign that the end is nigh? Shelleys Ozymandias Poem about the Fallen Egyptian World Power & Empire of Rameses comes to mind, this Statue sticking out of the sand with the writings of a colossal wreck sums up the fate of all Empires & the Superbowl is nothing but a spectacle to distract the Masses, if only for 3 hrs that the Match goes on to mask the Empires decline into oblivion?
I often find that Martyn might approach the deliberately polemic, but I rather suggest he has a point that (in my rendering of his words) the Superbowl could rival Dinner with Tremalchio (Petronius).
Even your beloved Soviets had the ballet.
Gosh that is so stupid Antforce62.
Gosh that is so stupid Antforce62.
Can’t wait to see your YouTube Super Bowl Reaction video go viral.
“basic eduction” ?
I tried a super bowl once, too much soy and msg.
Staring at it for 3 hours? bugger that.
American football is the perfect capitalist game. Plenty of stops to insert advertising during TV coverage.