Karl Marx, the O.G. commie, was a lot more evil than most people give him credit for being. For example, a lot people don't know that he was suspected by many of being an outright Satanist. His favorite quote was from Goethe's Mephistopheles, “Everything that exists deserves to perish.” His friends said that he would go around chanting this phrase. His father wrote letters to his son accusing him of being possessed by a demon. It is a conservative estimate that over 100,000,000 people have been murdered trying to force people to believe in his theories. One of his biographers stated that, "Anybody that thinks that this [communism] is a philosophy that is just about helping one another or sharing the wealth or redistributing wealth, they do not understand Marx and Marxism.” Another, participating in a discussion on the issue, referred to Marx as a 'militantly, aggressive, atheist', basically meaning that it wasn't enough for him to not believe, he didn't want anyone else to believe.
You are probably thinking now, "Wait a freaking minute here! I thought you were going to talk about sportscasters. What's going on here?" Well, I'l get around to that, but first I think its fair to show how I got on to this tact in the first place, and it all started while I was listening to two guys discuss Marx's religious beliefs, or lack thereof. Both seem to agree that it would be safe to say that Marx was of a Satanic state of mind. One stated that the records reveal that when he was young, Marx had written several poems in homage Satan. After listening to that, I listened to another podcast explaining why US Soccer should fire coach Gregg Berhalter after the US men's team's recent failure in the Copa de America. Leave it to me to be able to connect the two stories. Our men's team had every advantage that you could possibly think of; most of our country's teams have it a hell of a lot easier than most of the other teams in the world. Yet it didn't do them a damn bit of good and they were sent home before the knock-out round. That made me think of a book named The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle. The book pointed out that many of the greatest success stories in sport's history began in places that provided less than optimum circumstances, Dominican baseball, Brazilian soccer, Ethiopian runners, etc. It also made the point that in most of these cases it was the overcoming of obstacles, figuring out how to self-correct mistakes and the hunger for success that provided the 'initial spark' or drove the transformations involved. It also states that there is a substance called myelin that coats our nerve fibers whenever we figure things out on our own, so we actually perform more efficiently by learning from our mistakes. Another book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by imminent psychologist Mihaly Csikzentmihali said that his study revealed that the real secret of great athletes gaining the state of optimum performance was twofold: doing the right thing for the right reason. We usually don't do those two things in America now days. First of all, we always seem to try to make things easier on the people involved. I seriously doubt that any of the members of the US soccer team have ever played soccer with a ball made out of duct tape or on an uneven dirt playing field full of gopher holes. Our athletes have some of the best training facilities available with the best trainers and highly paid coaches doing their thinking for them. And as far as doing the right thing for the right reasons, well, we are getting away from that too. Most of our younger athletes think about their NIL contracts and their branding more than doing the right thing. We have systematically taught our kids to worship celebrities more than true heroes. And we have allowed the greedy pimps and the whoremongers to basically eradicate the concept of amateurism. Usually it's the suits with slicked back hair and cash stuffed in their pockets and greedy old college administrators who are both making the decisions and doing most of the 'splaining to the rest of us. How do Karl Marx, the Devil, and sportscasters figure into this scenario? Well, the people who are behind the scenes pushing the militant atheistic form of Satanism on us gullible types are a whole lot smarter than we give them credit for being. They have long understood that any form of social interaction can be corrupted to serve the cause, music, film, politics, sports, you name it. And they are especially gleeful with the advantages that electronic media confers. Loving and watching sports is not the problem. Paying college athletes millions of dollars for the use of their image is. Paying someone nearly a billion dollars to hit a baseball is. Spending more of our time arguing about who the Cowboys should draft in the first around than we do trying to figure out how to live a life worth living is. And you might not understand it and not want to hear about it, but to blindly follow the seasons watching more sports than legitimate news or seeking answers to the nagging spiritual questions makes your life more aligned with the militantly aggressive atheism of Marx than with anything truly meaningful. We have a quarterback in the NFL who is on track to make $60 million a year for throwing a football and a general population who seems to be okay with that. We have pop singers who make hundreds of millions of dollars being worshipped by massive fan bases who clearly don't have any idea of who or what they should be worshipping in place of their idols. In almost every field of human endeavor we have people who are trying to squeeze out every last nickel that they can get out of the public no matter what the cost is to the collective human experience. We no longer have real heroes. I just watched a sportscaster go on a ten minute rant gesturing and spitting as if he was discussing the existential meaning of the universe, except that he wasn't. He was talking about why Caitlin Clark should be placed on the WNBA All-Star Team. Before that I saw another one get worked up as he explained to his apostate partner why LeBron James was well inside his rights as a father for tipping the scales in favor of his son in the NBA draft. It just made me think of the billions upon billions of dollars and the massive amounts of time and consciousness we spend everyday distracting ourself from reality. It's perfectly obvious that we spend way more time and money talking about these events than we should, but hardly ever seem to grapple with the problem what it really means to live for a short while midst of an infinite universe. Is it any wonder that there are so people without hope on nearly every corner of America holding up cardboard signs or that an veritble ocean of fentanyl floods across our boarder daily? |
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