No offense or judgement meant to anyone if that’s your thing (to each their own). That’s just how I see pretty much all professional sports - the super bowl is just the poster child for it.

  • AdmiralShat@programming.dev
    164·
    5 months ago

    I hate this mentality, this weird “THEY WANT IS DISTRACTED” mentality. In reality, it’s a product that they make money on. It’s a business. It’s not some arm of a conspiracy or secret society designed to subjugate the masses. It’s just entertainment. While it might serve as a distraction as an outcome, its not like its the point, this type of dialouge is pointless

    • Yokozuna@lemmy.world
      94·
      5 months ago

      “Paid for by the emperor, the games were used to keep the poor and unemployed entertained and occupied. The emperor hoped to distract the poor from their poverty in the hopes that they would not revolt.”

      There are very similar undertones when compared to the Colosseum games in Rome.

      • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org
        5·
        5 months ago

        But the emperor isn’t paying for this circus. The plebs are. The Superbowl is not a loss-leader to keep the poors from rising up, it’s a profitable enterprise that keeps generating wealth. The money is what keeps it going, not some plan to keep people down.

        I fucking wish it were bread and circuses. Except instead of bread I’ll accept healthcare, and instead of circuses we get cable news.