“Everybody knows it, but no one openly speaks about it, that is essentially a war - it's great. When the viability of the Roman Empire was no longer in danger, she came up with an occupation for the entertainment of idiots. Invented gladiators. Caught young guys into the arena and made them fight each other in a variety of fun ways. Here you and the network, and tridents, and wall to wall, and couples tied together, and slaves, and animals and other cool things.
idiots love it, the women were delighted, profits skyrocketed. Arena in every city. Entire industries have developed to support the action - gunsmiths, doctors, promoters, bookmakers, catering, etc.. gladiators? they, who was bad at his job, they didn't live long. and this, who was skilled, sure, enjoyed their work, like any professional athlete. Anyway, it is better, than to die in the salt mines.
The US has not had any major threats since the victory in the Cold War.. And in the Second World War, it’s not that there was some kind of critical danger for us. We are primates, we – super-chimpanzees, that have evolved in an environment of constant danger, and now we are deprived of this environment. We live in such peace, which has never been equaled in our history. And here in the middle of our office pens, during hours and hours, spent on the way to work, and on the evening home sofa we got bored.
But we're lucky. The idiot entertainment industry has been evolving all this time.. Now our gladiators wear ACU and MARPAT and fight with barbarians already in their cities, deserts and mountains. Now the arena is entire countries on the edge of the world. Now you don't have to crowd with the same idiots in the Colosseum, to stare at the slaughter, entertainment is now served directly on home plasma. CNN, Fox News, movies, video games - everyone feeds from new arenas.
Depending on individual wishes and dough, you can choose a different level of immersion and presence in the arena: from helicopter flights to hot spots to briefing high-ranking gladiators, you can write epic articles or watch the implementation of your analytical recommendations. This is what is called real audience engagement.!
Huge industries feed off this sport. weapon, fortresses in the desert, fuel and food, armored vehicles - everything for the arena! Every year a new model! Yes, the military bumper sticker industry alone brings in millions of profits.. Also, medicine!
And if you have a more sophisticated female nature? I don't want blood, but something like that, what warms the heart? Not a problem. As in the days of the Roman Empire, gladiator fights were interspersed with musical and dance performances., and now there are NGOs and government agencies, and you can dig wells for the barbarians, build schools and teach their children to read, and feel enveloped in a kind of pleasant light of good deeds. beauty!
But human nature is, what to watch all the time, how your team kick ass barbarians, it gets boring too. Therefore, diversity is required.. As before in Rome, gladiators came up with all sorts of artificial restrictions for combat, tied limbs, and now they send women to war, gay, fetter military operations by "rules of engagement" and so on. Everything for that, to diversify the monotony and add pepper.
Nobody wants, to end the party. Tickets are sold and money is flowing. this week, Hurrah Hurrah, "tribes of the Bronze Age with Kalash against gladiators with JDAM. Next week, our heroes will break into small groups and will fight side by side with the barbarians who have come over to our side.! Hooray!
And what about the gladiators themselves?? Well, we have our whole society, to meet them with admiration and surround them with care and support. It has to be a very dense rare commie, not to support our troops.
War is fun. Once you reach a certain level of fitness, even playing various weapons pieces of iron and testing super-modern samples at the training ground, not to mention the battlefield, - it's fun. Of course, you can become disabled, but this is the whole essence of the game and the chances of becoming one-legged are really not that great. In the war you serve with great guys, who is mad and brave enough, to take part in this game, and this sense of camaraderie is worth a lot. If you knock out the overall balance of fun and threats, it still looks better, than rot in office hell.
And if you spend enough time in the arena, then you can become a higher level manager, move papers, or even being a nobody after being fired, get a bumper sticker on the car or a badge with gratitude from society for service, sometimes getting free beer from idiots in a bar for the same reason, the girls will be impressed by your service, and maybe even a movie will be made about you in the end.
But if it doesn’t keep you afloat anyway, and somewhere deep inside some kind of feeling of emptiness gnaws, then something is wrong with you. therefore, next time you will be thanked again for your service, tell them thank you, what are they watching this show, and say, to turn the show on again. Same time next week”.
