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Read Fahrenheit 451?

I am actively looking for the video you described, but I haven't found it yet.

I thought you would be interested in reading the article at the following link while I continue to look.

The title of the article is: "Stadiuma aren't about the money"

[link to greatergreaterwashington.org]

Thank you for looking... :)

Here's another good article while you're waiting.

"Sports, The Greatest Hypnotic Distraction? How sports distraction may be single-handedly preventing mass awakening"

[link to www.dailypaul.com]

Thank you guys for these... still I am looking for a black and white video these are great but not the one I am looking for... Thanks again!

Seriously....if you haven't read Fahrenheit 451 go do it right now. And keep in mind it was written in like 1951. Now. Go. I don't know if it mentions stadiums (maybe) but all other forms of distraction.

Thank you! I've read it.... but there is one video that is different.. the one that explains it all.... Gratefully, yours, t

This is not the video you are looking for, but it does help fill in another piece of the puzzle: public monies are being funneled into building stadiums that benefit private interests - even when the stadiums do not break even, some private interests profit from them.

"Should the U.S. Be Protesting Like Brazil"



Here's the info that accompanies the video clip above which is from June of 2013.

Massive protests have rocked Brazil this week as the World Cup looms next summer. Demonstrators want to know why billions in public money is funneled away from essential services like education and healthcare, and toward massive sports stadiums. But, how is this problem even worse in the United States. RT Political Commentator Sam Sacks explains.

I am still looking for the video you want.

I also found this interesting (applicable) book citation:

The term culture industry (German: Kulturindustrie) was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”, of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), wherein they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods — films, radio programmes, magazines, etc. [pro sports, emphasis mine] — that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity.

Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances.

The inherent danger of the culture industry is the cultivation of false psychological needs that can only be met and satisfied by the products of capitalism;

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

I am sorry, but I cannot find the video you are interested in.

I suggest you try asking a research librarian or a vintage film institute for any pointers on how to locate the film you are interested in.

Here's an excerpt from another article that was published Feb. 2, 2013 that may interest you.

Title: "Are Sports Just a Distraction?"

Excerpt:

While I considered sports to be a distraction in my own life, Noam Chomsky argues that sports are a distraction for the masses. The renowned intellectual, activist and linguist believes that spectator sports are a form of propaganda designed to divert society’s attention. In his book “Understanding Power,” Chomsky says:

“In our society, we have things that you might use your intelligence on, like politics, but people really can’t get involved in them in a very serious way—so what they do is they put their minds into other things, such as sports. You’re trained to be obedient; you don’t have an interesting job; there’s no work around for you that’s creative; in the cultural environment you’re a passive observer of usually pretty tawdry stuff; political and social life are out of your range, they’re in the hands of the rich folk. So what’s left? Well one thing that’s left is sports—so you put a lot of the intelligence and the thought and the self-confidence into that. And I suppose that’s also one of the basic functions it [i.e. pro sports] serves in the society in general: it occupies the population, and keeps them from trying to get involved with things that really matter.”

[link to www.care2.com]