There
is a ton of news about what the current NFL protests mean, politically
speaking. For the moment, I'm leaving that out. I want to take a different
angle.
The
first thing to know is that Donald Trump once played a key role in an upstart
pro football league called the USFL, which lasted three seasons (1983-85)
before it collapsed.
As
the owner of the New Jersey Generals and the most powerful force in the League,
Trump went up against the NFL. He wanted the USFL to schedule its games
opposite the NFL starting in the fall, not the spring. Trump was a key player
in suing the NFL for monopolistic practices.
The
USFL won that suit, and was awarded the grand sum of...three dollars. Yes.
So
The Donald has held a grudge against the NFL for a long time.
His
recent tweets and statements, urging the league to take action against players
disrespecting the National Anthem, urging teams to fire protesting
players...all this has a history.
But
there is a deeper story, and it emerges at a time when television ratings for
the NFL have already been declining, and the television networks---especially
ESPN---are carrying massive billion-dollar contracts with the NFL for the
rights to broadcast games.
On
top of that, ESPN features show-hosts who are firmly in the Colin Kaepernick,
pro-protest camp. These talking heads are politicizing sports every day, and
many fans don't want that.
What
do they want from ESPN and from the NFL games they watch? They want sports,
competition, heroics on the field. They want their favorite teams to win and
the teams they hate to lose. Period.
In
theater, there is a phrase, "breaking the fourth wall." It's used to
describe plays that address the audience directly and shatter the illusion of
viewing a self-contained world on stage.
This
is where the deeper story of football enters the scene. For fans, the
political/sports commentary and the protests on the playing field are breaking
the fourth wall.
They
can't watch the games in a trance.
They
can't enjoy the vicarious thrills and chills.
The
same thing is happening in the television news business. During the Obama
presidency, there was the (promoted) mainstream illusion that White House
business was being conducted in the usual hermetically sealed container. It was
a controlled stage play---and people could sit in front of their television
sets in a popcorn trance and watch it unfold. All in all, with major
exceptions, the hypnotic spell held. For a while.
But
then along came Trump. He broke the fourth wall. He laughed at the press. He called
them idiots. He attacked them mercilessly. He said they were fake.
This
was quite disturbing to many news fans. It certainly was disturbing to the
major news networks. They make their living by hypnosis.
And
now it's happening to one of the nation's most cherished institutions of
distraction: football.
It
isn't football anymore. It's a mixed drink. With serious political overtones.
What people want to get away from on Sundays, Monday and Thursday nights is
what they're being forced to swallow.
And
Trump is making it much worse. He's lighting the alcohol in the cocktail. He
doesn't care.
Where
can millions of trance-seeking Americans go to get their fix? It's a problem.
The
protests have spilled over into the NBA and it looks like Major League Baseball
may suffer the same indignity, thanks to Trump.
Here's
a piece of cognitive dissonance for you. At the beginning of yesterday's NFL
games, fans in several stadiums booed players for kneeling during the national
Anthem. It's hard to maintain a hypnotic spell in the middle of that
contradiction.
What's
a "normal American" to do? Stay home and guzzle a six-pack while
watching Sunday cable re-runs of Cops?
"Give
me back my fourth wall!"
When
people complain these days that they're triggered by the contentious political
scene in America, when they seek professional help for their disturbed mental
state, in many cases they're simply asking to return to simpler times.
"I
want the news to lie to me as it's always lied to me, and I want to believe.
Let me concoct my old fantasies..."
In
ancient Rome, it was bread, blood and circuses. Now it's sponsors like
Budweiser and Ford, concussions, and kneeling.
In
order to corral millions of people in a news trance or a football trance, you
need transmissions without disruptions.
Trump
is escalating the disruptions.
Whether
people are for or against his tweets about the NFL, the spell is being torn
apart.
"I
want my football! I want my fourth wall!"
Trump
talks about building one wall on the southern border, and he's ripping the
"football wall."
Aside
from making business deals, disruption has always been Trump's game.
In
a nutshell, the major pastime of America, in modern times, is hypnosis. That
sport appears to be falling apart.
This
is the bigger issue. It comes down to: what is the individual going to do? What
is he waking up to? What does he want others to wake up to?
Can
the sleeper, jostled in his bed, forced to put his feet on the cold floor,
build a better reality? Or will he look for another spell to fall under? Can he
recognize he has been sleeping all this time?
Does
he think his favorite trance, which is under attack, is the only reality that
counts?
Waking
up may be hard to do, but these days it is called for.
Think
about this: On one side, we have people who love the flag, who love America, who love individualism and support the
veterans. On the other side, we have people who are collectivists, who want to blame the basic conditions of inner cities on police; who want to avoid
talking about black on black violence, black gangs, black and hispanic thugs, rampant drug abuse, the failed war on poverty, race baiters and the theft of jobs by Globalists.
Entering
either of these realms is entering a trance. It may be an active trance, but
the game is still hypnosis.
Controllers, the sports media, Illuminati and some NFL owners are in the business of pitting one trance against another,
for profit, advantage, and power.
By the way, this division in our nation is the tool of satan and the result of repeated attempts by the U.S. to divide Israel, including secret talks presently by Jerad Kushner with the Israelis and Palestinians. If we Americans insist on dividing and carving up Israel God will carve and divide America up by one means or another.
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