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| The Hunger Games (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| English: A fencer. Illustration from the report of the 1908 Olympic Games. From The Fourth Olympiad, being the Official Report of the Olympic Games of 1908. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Later in the movie Children are chosen by lottery to fight to the death.It becomes a televised event for the elites cities entertainment.It is a despicable situation except when you watch the so called reality shows that are currently on TV sets worldwide.
There is a video on Youtube called BUDO that spends the entire time explaining how a beautiful Samurai Sword was made. There was much detailing on how the Masters used skill with the weapon.It ended with 2 very real masters facing off with swords drawn and in the blink of an eye 1 man Beheaded the other...It was
no a prop!
Based on that I began to realize that the real world that we live in has gradually done similar. Events in ways so subtle that we except it as "the way it is".
We send our best athletes to the Olympic Games to compete for the gold and very much the same as The Hunger Games.They win to get rich and famous.They win to encourage others to seek the fame and notoriety that comes with the label bestowed on them.The best athlete,The best Gladiator.The Best Huntsmen.The Olympics are all volunteers and the hunger games are lottery as the U.S. military draft once was.
The Olympics are a peaceful way to have wars without collateral damage and death.Everyone at least goes home alive and for the most part intact.
I would hope we would never consider the movie version of competition,but we really already have done so.
The killing of others for profit is not so far from the truth.Reporting the carnage is old stuff also.Please note the Romans. Folks fighting for reasons that the combatants themselves ponder.The mindset is hammered into them as to why. The reasons embedded deep in the subconscious so as to make a better program( to watch?).More drama and intrigue for the 6 o'clock news to show those who watch from afar.TV just replaced the coliseum.
The hammered in mindset of a military volunteer is set that they are doing their duty to protect others.The controllers of the 'wargames'have been mindset duty.much longer on this bravado,machismo,Spree DE Core. Whatever name you call it,the observers televise it for a good propaganda show.Blood flows and explosions burst.Gunfire from all directions as the command audience sits safely somewhere enjoying the show and figuring the next scene. The hunger games brought to reality as shock and awe.
Young people fighting each other for people that they will never meet and killing other young people that they may never know.Folks that they might even like under different circumstances.But some one has ordered them to kill or be killed.
This movie scenario is not new.Poor folks have been pulled into "war games"for many millenia.
few have invested in controlling the reasons and parameters of the created conflict.Those pulling the strings make huge amounts of profit.The longer the conflict,the greater the profit for the directors of chaos on all sides.Those fighting in the blood,smoke,and guts rarely have anything to say about the actions or the outcome.Their"job"is to kill sh** and blow things up.Speaks for itself...It sells.
It sells weapons,oil,medical treatment for wounded warriors coming home.Mental and emotional destruction in now fractured minds and spirits .Those left at home are pretty much screwed for any future help after the Warriors are broken.Those Wounded Warriors are to spend the rest of their lives
trying to restore and recover their lost life.
Incidentally,the Wounded Warrior Foundation is a fantastic organization that is dedicated to helping restore the warriors life as much as possible.The help to soldiers and families are intensive and focused to help those who have been able to return minus a funeral and burial ceremony.Medals optional here.
NO ONE can doubt the courage and will of a warrior going to a created conflict.They are the greatest example of a Human Beings integrity to others.I am only saying that focused in a movement of peace and creating instead of focused for destruction that anything would be possible and equally profitable.
This world needs to replace the cycle of dark and destructive combat between people to replace it with unified exploration and research.The warlords mongering for death are outnumbered.WE THE PEOPLE can change the world.The sea needs to be settled and farmed.Desserts can be terraformed.
Wars for land and philosophies can stop when people finally decide that they don't need to convert or dominate folks that just don't agree with them.Money is the root of all evil it is said..So how do WE THE PEOPLE finally get sick and tired of the killing of our brightest and strongest youths.
That decision is yours and mine.
If it is true that just ordinary folks are in command of this world
Keep fighting for that right if it is not true,then we need to work to make it a reality.
The world and what you make it is all...There is no fate except what you make.
RJP
