The Apathy Virus
Rolf. A. F. Witzsche
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The Caesars of Rome understood this process well. They gave their 'citizens' games, festivals, chariot races, gladiator sports, and sundry related forms of diabolical mass entertainment. In today's world much of the same is accomplished with our more modern versions of the Roman processes. We have retained the violent games that Rome was famous for, which we present in our cinemas with a much more deeply reaching, shocking and numbing effect. We have also retained the mass sports, which were another mark of Roman society. Our mass sports are slightly gentler, though, in the form of ball games, wrestling matches, stock trading, horse racing, casino gambling, etc.. Everyone of these pursuits takes people mentally into a back-alley where life is exciting, stimulating, exhilarating (if that), were their focus of attention has absolutely nothing to do with reality. The stock and financial derivatives markets, for instance, have created in society's minds the illusion of a raging prosperity, while in reality the physical support structure, the nation's industries and infrastructures that supply its most basic needs, including its food, are collapsing. It has been said that the financial casino industries, the banks, brokers, and other gambling institutions, operate a zero sum game, meaning that there are as many winners as losers. That's the shiny front that is intended to put society to sleep. The reality is, that this financial casino industry is depriving society of the much needed investment funds for its self-development. This financial casino game has become so huge that it is destroying entire nations. The size of it, on average, is in the five trillion dollar range, in current trades that ride the dice each single day, while there is no money available for education, health-care, culture, transportation, decent housing, farm support, and industrialization.
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