Day 247 - NFL Deceives for Profit

      One of the disturbing things about the football games today was an event/occurrence during the Cleveland Browns vs. Baltimore Ravens game where a player got injured and was down on the field holding his head /helmet obviously in a significant level of incapacitation as a result of a very hard blow to his helmet from a teammate of similar size and stature, vomit visibly present on his face mask, and laying on the turf holding his helmet in a sort of frantic frenzied disorientation accompanied with a seemingly gut wrenching ache similiar in nature to getting kicked in the balls.

        The more disturbing thing about the whole incident was how quickly the broadcast cut to a commercial break, and how there was no mention that I heard of him or his condition later on in the game or in the post game broadcast. Not a "he was carried off the field" "he was helped to the sidelines" or "he was escorted to the locker room for examination or treatment", not a mention of anybody being injured, nothing...zilch...nada...

To put this one in perspective for you, ive been watching the NFL on television since I was 6 years old and I just turned 28 recently. I've never seen a hit this hard in a live game accompanied with a player being so incapacitated as a result of the blow to the helmet vs a serious structural injury ie. serious leg injury, accompanied by an nvoluntary response of vomiting immediately after the hit.

         So it came to mind that The National Football League may have coercively tried to cover up the severity of this incident and maybe even worse, ignored its occurrence altogether excluding the live broadcast of the play and the instant replay broadcasted on television immediately after including the close-up of the player on the ground close enough to see the vomit emitted from his mouth.

       Everybody who saw the film with Will Smith called "Concussion", an expose of the National Football League's history of covering up, silencing, and paying off past and present players who have endured significant brain damage as a result of the impacts endured to their heads while playing in the league, would be or should be acutely or semi aware of the impact that film had not only on their own perceptions of the sport moving forward but also the overall collective perception of the sport nationally and internationally.

     Part of the effect its had is already being vividly seen in the NFL's recent marketing campaigns including blatant advertisements touting the implementation of new helmet technologies as if it is all of the sudden relevant, a recent change in the rules regarding tackling forms and methods, and the new slogan appropriated to the advertisements specifically implemented to address this growing concern in the public eye titled "The NFL, Moving Forward". This new slogan and advertising of the measures being taken to make the sport "safer" are espoused as new 21st century advancements in technology and products of the leagues 'newfound demands regarding saftey'. Such technological advancements are made to seem as if they are derived from the good conscientiousness, awareness, and keenness of the NFL, its partners, players, and viewers. However, anybody who saw the movie "Concussion" which debuted in 2015 starring Will Smith" starkly knows and sees otherwise.

     The truth is this wasn't so much of an issue of concern with regards to the public's perception of the sport pre 2015. And the almost panic like frenzy the NFL has been in to garner a more responsible image since the movie debuted is unquestionably expedient timing in response to its widespread impact. The movie's expose and unveiling of all that has been going on over the years regarding the level of damage that has been done to player's brains, the level of damage that is ascertainably still being endured to this day, and the lengths for which the NFL association has went through and still may to cover up this information, silence those who have attempted to speak out against the nature of what has been going on in the league, and fervently withheld disclosures of prudent facts and data they hold and have held for decades regarding the level of personal danger current and future players are and/or will be exposed to as a result of playing the sport and more specifically in the National Football League, has definitely skewed anybody's perception of of not only the league, but also themselves, their families, their communities, the fan base as a whole, and the entire sport itself.

     All things considered it was not such a big surprise we have seen the campaigns the last few years conveniently timed after the release of the movie. But a little bit more surprising is the more recent seemingly blatant disregard for an occurrence during live television in where the nature of such occurrence is at the heart of what the recent PR campaigns have been poised to address.

Maybe their plan is to hush hush the facts, shuue away any reckoning of these events as they unfold on live television in front of millions of people, and continue to tout 'how technology is being advanced to make a safer sport, rules are being implemented to better suit a 21st century level of conscientiousness and moral reptitude with regards to the aftermath of recreational sport violence' as if these actions were born out a spontaneous increase in the injuries occurring in the league, the severity of those injuries, the increasing need to address them, or even worse, their ethical responsibility to do so.

 But we all know that if the movie Concussion was even remotely accurate in its depictions, the NFL wasn't and probably still isn't worried about anything other than its public image and corporate profits. If they were not that concerned then this would have came to the forefront of their PR campaigns a long time ago when the evidence was first coming out. (Actually they could have been concerned and may have avoided their upcoming downfall).

Its a lesson for all of us, that human greed can create monstrous atrocities amidst the almighty temptation of a large cash cow and better yet accompanied with the FEAR of that cash cow disappearing. 

This why we need to take survival out of this system and make it guaranteed. For as long as the FEAR is there, the human will stop at nothing to destroy itself and others as he/she is being conned into this delusion promulgated this competition forced upon them by virtue of our inability to come to a comon sense agreement about what is best for all and how to implement that.

Amen. God have mercy on us. They know not what they do. 

Sources: 

Live viewing of the broadcast of The Ravens vs. The Browns on CBS.

"Concussion" fictional film by Peter Landesman featuring Will Smith in the lead role. 

Excerpt from Wikipedia about "Concussion"

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"Concussion is a 2015 American biographicalsports drama film directed and written by Peter Landesman, based on the exposé "Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, published in 2009 by GQ magazine.^[ "

Day 246

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed the fear of getting out and doing stuff.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed the fear of facing my fear.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed the fear of talking to women.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed the fear of standing up to people.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed the fear of being truthful and honest

with others and myself.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed the fear of leaving behind the old and

starting anew.

Day 245 - Confidence and Sexuality

I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to give myself and to have the confidence to fuck hot women.
I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to feel confident in my attractiveness towards the women I am most attracted to.
I forgive myself that i have not accepted and allowed myself to feel confident in my looks.
I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to feel confident in my body naked around a woman I consider to be smoking hot.
I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to feel confident in my sexual expressions.
I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to give myself the confidence to be who I want to be and stand up for who i want to be and what i want to live as me as my expression.

Day 244 - Value of Facebook? Who should get all the profits?

There is nothing wrong with a free service that harvests its user information to generate a return on investment. Within capitalism that is totally fine and is a part of the whole goal of the service in the first place, to generate a profit. To say otherwise would be dishonest unless of course the profits somehow went back to the users at some point instead of just mainly the capital suppliers who provided the whole 'brick and mortar' foundation in the form of money aka. capital in the beginning and the service creators, managers, and servants.


This is why publishing is so important because within the capitalist system nothing creative gets done without the 'capitalists' investment into such things - and this is only influenced by the 'capitalists' 'aim goals'. Usually  that has to do with 'turning a profit' and 'generating cash flow' unless they are interested in 'changing the world' or 'making a difference'. Thus it could take many years before an idea, framework, or system, is actually implemented full scale inside the system due to the nature of how capitalists choose what is to be capitalised or not, this is why it is so important to publish no matter who you are because everyone has great ideas. They are just rarely written down, much less built, and 'once a blue moon' actually implemented to the point of being substantially etched into consciousness to where it is an ongoing 'paradigm', 'part of society', or becomes 'just the the way it is' as they say out of the lack for the ability to explain how things come about and form within society, human endeavor, human life, and human consicousness.


Which brings up an interesting point because within a service that is 'harvesting' its users information and the primary utility of that service is a 'medium to facillitate publishing' then that service's value is really derived from the users ingenuity in ideas that they 'publish' - not their information for which they can be targeted for advertising. That is only a part of the 'capitalist' ideal/notion of 'investing' which serves no purpose really but to make them money which is based out of survivalism(a false ideal and not best for all in practice). 

So if the value of a service is derived from the users 'publishings' then that would indicate that the 'exchange' would go to the 'highest ingenuity in thought published', 'consistency of ingenuity', 'paradigm shifting ingenuity of thought published',  instead of just to the 'harvester of personal information' who mainly just acts as facillitators and managers of the medium itself after it is implemented and expanded to the point of global popularity wherein that which is published is exchanged all over the world and thus by virtue of that reach it is changing the world. Thus the quality of that which is published becomes the metric by which to measure one's value that one has offered to the world through publishing on a service that is worldwide popular.

These intricacies are important to consider when a company produces a product or service that so many people use, and whether the brand that they are portraying is actually genuine at the end and in daily practice.

Day 243 - George H.W. Bush Died - After Thoughts

As the ex president George H.W. Bush has passed away 7 months after his long time wife passed in April of this year there have been expectedly many articles within the newspace about his passing, his legacy, his accolades, history, accomplishments, and by somes critique failures or misdoings. I think this is a good time for all who find this event within themselves or see this event as an opportunity to 'expose the real man' within the context of judging what he did or did not do as president of the most powerful nation on earth in modern times, to sit back and reflect on the true cause for somebody to do what he had done in his time, put yourselves in his shoes self-honestly, and contemplate the reasons for why he did what he did. Within this exercise keep it in your mind the principles of equality and oneness when examining his life especially if you find yourself tending to judge his actions, his morals, or his life as whole as far as the value he brought to the world. Also keep in your mind and try to understand that if we as a collective or individually continue to judge one another instead of seeing/realizing the true root or cause for one another's actions then we will never come to an understanding of one another or ourselves because within the principle of equality and oneness we are each other, existing as reflections of one another as references for who we are, and within that we each have a response-ability to act or respond in ways that are founded within these principles, as so doing would create the best consequences for them and ourselves. As long as understanding is missing, as long as we are not harped on coming to an understanding of ourselves and each other, and as long as we are 'hell bent' on taking revenge instead of coming to a solution, agreement, or mutual understanding, then the world will continue as it does to our inevitable demise individually and collectively as a consequence for our failures individual and collective to not take response-ability for our actions, what we create, how we create it, and how that ripples out unto the world.

Instead of judging the man, judge the systems to converged and compelled him to take the steps that he did, to no fault of his own but following what had already been practically laid out and planned for him since birth in a system of survivalism and competition as some sort of God or relgiion.


post on facebook in response to a post based in a judgmental nature regarding the life of George H W Bush :
The problem isn't Bush. Not to diminish the 'crimes' that he committed, but in this economic system he probably did what he did to further his accolades, resume, and pockets. That doesn't necessarily make him a criminal (albeit some of what he did violated international law such as the invasion of Iraq/Kuwait in the early 90's). The problem is the economic incentives that would compel an individual to do such things, directly or indirectly cause the deaths of many people armed or not, and take such actions that he did whether they be deemed 'just' or not. Probably many if not most of the things he did could be defended or justified in many ways using the amalgams that many if not most deem as self evident truths. Such as 'defending one's country'. How does one quantify what 'defending one's country' really entails when the answer is multi-faceted and based on a multidimensional, multifaceted set of factors? Eg. If oil were to be finite and each country had to manifest its own production or acquisition of it, and each country's economies were primarily based on this to keep running efficiently without a complete overhaul or sudden paradigm shift that would wreak havoc on its society, then wouldn't any means necessary to acquire or produce this material be deemed 'defending one's country'? How could not the entire country be deemed responsible for any injustices that occur under its watch? The real problem is the pasttimes handed down, traditions, beliefs, and ideals that many stick to regardless of the evidence of how so doing can create consequences for themselves, their families, their cultures, their countries, and their world as a whole.

When man's law is not directly attributed to and/or derived from 'god's' law there is a disconnect and no real accountability at a micro or macro level for anybody. This must change or else no man can be judged rightly or justly as everything compells him to such, as everybody blindly, tacitly, and drunkenly supports the very system that produces him to be such a way.