 - Last login: 2 months agoJaCk044
- Jack is a 45 year old guy from England, UK.
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- Member since Apr 21, 2007
A wandering wordsmith, professional tea drinker and consumer of web-trivia ... "Hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied".
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I find it bitterly ironic that the government has appointed a task force to find and expose corruption in football: the phrase, "check the mote in your own eye" springs irresistibly to mind, and unless this unreasoning lust for money and power is checked it will not only bring the game into (further) disrepute but will bring our society to a crisis point where the rich not only get richer but increasingly flaunt their wealth in the face of the vast majority of people around the world, heedlessly uncaring of their reactions because they hold all the wealth and power within a select group - a 'big-four' of corporations - who are protected by a security force with wholesale powers to enforce the rule of law to the point of mindless obedience.
Such obedience is expressed in the bland soundbites and hollow banter between pundits on SKY-sports and the BBC, and is mirrored in the in-house reporters at FOX-news and many other American owned media outlets who simply ignore the real story and offer `info-tainment' in place of real news. I'm not too sure who is worse: The Chinese who blanket-ban any news which shows their government in a bad light or the American-way of editing such news to leave it in the shadows, away from the bright light of public scrutiny where the damning indictment of such a society would render many politicians helpless.
The flip-side of such unthinking obedience is a blinkered loyalty to (the point of fanaticism) one's own club, which is why i'll be listening to the game at Wigan this afternoon on 5Live! and watching the highlights tonight on the BBC rather than courtesy of SKY-sports. The Beeb may be bland as unsweetened oats but at least i have the small satisfaction of keeping a few quid out of the clutching grasp of Rupert (spit-spit) Murdoch.
Mind you; i do miss 'Soccer-Saturday' ... here's why:) video.stumbleupon.com [video.stumbleupon.com] (#1200)
Truth may be as tough as Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. thinks but it's seriously bent out of shape after being kicked from pillar-to-post for over a century and needs fresh inspiration in order for it to thrive in the society we're helping to create.
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