People Of The World Unite; You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Passivity

Life without television sport
and the engineered publicity
that promoted nonentities
as if they were future stars,
or had done something useful,
might seem like The End of the World to many.

But the time of the virus
is is not the end of anything
it is merely a pleasing hiatus
from the false frivolity
of light entertainment.

There was a time before television
when watching a sport and playing it
were interchangeably engaging activities
-both happened in the same stadia.

Back then there were few professional bodies
and sportsmen (it was usually men, but not always*)
that organised sport did not rely on the oxymoron
of the cross promotion of sport on television
via advertisers whose main aim was to sell sugary drinks
and fatty foods to ready glazed and rotting couch potatoes.



*Women in England played football on the same terms
as men did up to 1921, when men banned women
from playing on the same pitches that men used.

Seeking Compensation Means Living In The Past

I would love to say that I find life totally meaningless,
and because life means nothing then there is no rationale
for any part of what I have learnt that sustains strong scrutiny.
But I can't.
I have found that life works better without a grande scheme.
The pleasures of the moment are always simple,
and work fine for no over-arching plan because
they are uncomplicated by the need for grand reason.
I know very well that there is suffering in the world,
but this suffering is perpetuated by all the grand scheme
I have known which have at their roots the idea
of particular status-led human beings as highly possessive,
'victims', seeking compensation, from the present and future.


If you want to live in the present don't seek compensation,
or expect relief your own suffering. Recompence is addictive,
and leads to living even more in the past,
where people get ever more tightly wrapped
in the roles of  victim/rescuer/persecutor
that pass for modern culture.
Most of all, if you still have a choice
don't start a family-be replete in commensality in yourself.