The government like people getting all worked up about sportsball. Even to the point of violence and destruction. It provides the proles with a type of cathartic release that releases any anger they may have building against real injustices against them. Most of the time just watching sportsball is enough, to vicariously participate in mock war. A society under tension may see the mock warfare spill out into minor violence between the "sides" or undirected property damage. Panem et circenses. It's worked for millennia.

People were livid about their life being destroyed. But the (((tv))) said that it was the "bogeyman's" fault and that doing nothing was normal. Meanwhile, people rioting in is thought to be bad and people should behave. But the (((tv))), once again, and said that it's normal, roiting and sportsball just 2 things that go together.

I find, that some people allow the talmund-vision to think for them, and so their behaviors and actions are part of the machine they believe they control.

panem et circenses