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Kneel For Mega-sports
If
you live near a big, advanced, U.S. city you may feel pride for the number of
stadiums “you" have in your city. They provide a great place to get
together and demonstrate common cause. One can stand in awe of the stadium that
the municipal treasury subsidized for a megacorporation. We keep mega-corps
close with our fidelity to them. They return our loyalty by only threatening to
move to another city when the tax breaks might abate. It is great to make pilgrimage
to the 250 acres of urban property, and celebrate the extermination of the
economic potential of the hallowed mega-sport spaces.
One
can picture a flyover of U.S. cities and see ¼ square mile craters where mega-sports
corporations have blown $1,000,000,000 economic dead zones into existence. Mega-corps
owe a sop to the bent culture that gives them tax dollars and fealty, and more
money for merchandise that exclaims their fealty. Oh, how about playing the
theme song for the weak dick, bent, venal government that sells economic
potential for the occasional ballet in the crater. Now picture sitting in those
craters to watch a mega-corp show, and giving one billionth of a shit what the
corporate employees do when mega-corp ingraciously plays that national anthem.
I
have snapped to attention and held a salute at 17:00 retreat, when the National
Anthem is played, over one thousand times, on a dozen bases, around the world.
That mattered. At any corporate shareholder meeting, or other song and dance,
the National Anthem is NOT appropriate. If the corporate shysters feel
compelled to co-opt and play the National Anthem, they are wrong! To give a
shit of how the employees and share-holders respond is just wrong compounded.
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