Opiate of the Masses: Superbowl 2019 & the Many MILLION$ $pent in 1 $ingle Evening = American Insanity

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American Football is the Modern Day Gladiators of the Modern Day Roman Empire...

The football stadium is the Colosseum, the game itself is the opiate of the masses, and those who plan the Superbowl game every year know it, while corporate advertisers take full advantage of this fact year after year after year...

And on February 3, 2019 - over the weekend on Sunday evening - once again millions upon millions of Americans gathered at sports bars and house parties, in front of televisions both large and small with plenty of junk food in hand to watch the most watched sports game of the entire year. This is an American tradition, to honor the game and the professional players who are paid millions to smash into each other and hopefully score a few touchdowns in the meantime, as a form of entertainment for the watchers of course. Lots of drinking; lots of yelling, screaming and hollering; people getting drunk left and right as they cheer or mourn their favorite team or players from afar. And did I mention all the junk food being consumed, poisoning all those taking part?

I've never really understood why it is such an American past time, to watch this rather violent and dangerous sport, but I have noticed just how addicted some people are to watching football, and just how fanatical so many people get about the Superbowl if 'their' team is playing, despite it just being a game. It is not at all an exaggeration to say that many people live for this day, for this game, for this one afternoon or evening each year. Kinda sad if this is the highlight of your entire year, in my opinion, but so it is for a great many of the masses.

You see, the Superbowl itself is more than a game; it is the most watched game in this country each and every year, and this illustrates just how 'hooked' on this game the masses have become; it truly is the opiate of the masses. It is an addiction of the serfs of the empire, to keep them mindlessly entertained and distracted by a mere game when there are far more important things going on in the world and this country.

Like $10.5 million of your taxpayer dollars going to the criminal state/occupation of Israel EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE YEAR. Like the $717 billion of your taxpayer dollars going to fund the empire's wars abroad in 2019 and all their many weapons of war used to kill countless of innocents across the earth. Like the US government/empire/military industrial complex directly funding and supporting radical ISIS and al-Qaeda Jihadi terrorists in Syria which we at the very same time claim to be fighting against! Like President Donald Trump now going back on his promise to withdraw US troops from Syria, for Israel of course :)

Then here in America there are homeless people living on the streets, in the cold, with empty stomachs. Or the NSA illegally spying on you and me, or the military drones used to kill American citizens abroad, or the countless millions of innocent creatures being constantly held in even worse conditions than convicted felons until the day they are mercilessly slaughtered to satisfy the human desire for flesh (and corporate greed fueling such inhumane conditions). Like an epidemic of debt-slavery, with an entire national government over $20 trillion in debt along with the average citizen paying off multiple loans including college debt, home mortgage payments, car/truck payments, and credit card debt. Some also have small business loan debt to pay back. In this day and age it has become 'normal' for Americans to be paying off 3-5 debts at one time as a minimum!

And then there's the epidemic of poisons in the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the ground we grow our food in, which is altogether slowly killing us all off physically as well as mentally and spiritually. Like the cancer epidemic in humans and our pets alike. Like an epidemic of police brutality and corruption. Like the middle class slowly being eradicated, making room for just two classes: the ultra rich elite and the poor working class serfs enslaved to this elite. Like the rampant injustice widespread throughout the entire (In)Justice System from the top to the bottom, and the list could go on and on, but this is enough to illustrate my point - that there are countless things far more important than this one game. But you wouldn't know it talking to your average American on February 3, 2019, on Superbowl Sunday.

I'm personally not a big fan of American football as a sport to begin with, so I'm not naturally drawn to the Superbowl, and rarely watch it. Growing up I played Rugby until a shoulder injury (coincidentally not from the game) prevented me from playing any longer, so American football seems odd and boring in comparison. Regardless, I've always been more of a fan of playing sports I enjoy rather than watching them... The day of the Superbowl san always be a bit of a lonely day for me too, as I don't have all that many friends to begin with and the few I do are usually off watching the Superbowl or busy working. This year I didn't even get invited to any parties, which is fine because I probably would have declined to attend the show where people get way to riled up over nothing but a game anyway.

Plus on top of that it's rather depressing just how much of an insane amount of money gets pissed away in just a few hours, all in one night; for the sole purpose of entertainment and corporate profit (and dumbing the audience down too). Yes there's homeless people starving, even in this so-called 'first-world' country, but in 2019 Americans paid $3,650 for the cheapest single ticket to attend this championship game - and up to $475,000 for the most expensive ticket at the 20-yard line! Average cost for a ticket to attend the Superbowl is typically between $3,000 and $6,000, so approximately $4,500. (source)

And with 71,000 seats at the stadium used for the 2019 game, Americans presumably spent around $319,500,000 on tickets alone! Yes that's $319 million just on tickets for 71,000 people to attend the game in person. However over 100 million people watch the Superbowl every year on TV around the country (recently). And that is where the corporate advertisers and advertising comes in.

A record $5.25 million per 30 second ad - that's what it cost to run a Superbowl ad in 2019!

Yes, just about everyone knows Superbowl ads are the most expensive ads that companies an purchase in this country, but how many people think about the implications of this insanity and what it actually means or how it reflects upon us as a society? There are homeless people in this country, and all the problems listed above plus many more, and yet companies will spend $5.25 MILLION on a 30 SECOND AD in hopes of making just a little bit more corporate profit. And if that wasn't insane enough, "The majority of consumers regard Super Bowl commercials as entertainment," Statista reports - yeah you read that right, most Americans consider these ads to be a form of entertainment on top of the game itself! We have apparently become such a consumerist-driven materialistic society that advertising can now be seen as just another form of entertainment... Which will inevitably lead people to buy things they absolutely don't need, who otherwise wouldn't have made these purchases. After all, if Superbowl advertising wasn't effective, then companies wouldn't keep dishing out more and more money each year after 50 years of doing this thing :>)

Ok, so this price charged by NBC who owned the rights for the big game this year is barely up from the $5.05 million average per 30-second-slot in 2018, but this cost has nearly doubled in the past decade since 2007 when the same ad space costed about $2.4 million. How does this stack up in total dollar amount spent by advertisers during the Superbowl?

According to Kantar Media, advertisers spent $480 million on last year’s Super Bowl [2018], so there is plenty of money to be made for CBS. - Forbes

The advertising revenue from the 2017 Super Bowl for example stood at around 419 million U.S. dollars. - Statista

So it is not at all unlikely that this year companies spent a total of $500 million or more just in advertising costs during this one single game and its half time show! And who's making all that profit? That's right, the wonderful, oh so unfair and completely biased, government-mouthpiece, warmongering, corporate fakestream media, that's who! In 2017 it was FOX, this year in 2019 it was CBS.

In the first 50 years of the Superbowl, from 1968 through 2016, advertisers spent "A total of $4.5 billion, according to Ad Age's analysis."

That isn't a number the average human being is even able to comprehend, and yet that is how much money is wasted on the day of the Superbowl in order to push the rampant materialization of society down our throats. Even the ads themselves are being run by companies of the NWO 'Deep State' itself. The Washington Post ran an ad pushing their MSM propaganda, as did the 'evil' tech giant which is spying on the whole world, Google; both of which made it into Kellog's 'Top 10' Superbowl ads for the year 2019.

Tom Hanks narrated the WP ad, which read as follows in video form:

And while it is true, that knowing [truth] keeps us free, it simply just isn't the corporate LameStream Media and their presstitutes doing all this they claim, but rather the independent alternative media.

Knowing the absurdity of these claims makes this ad ridiculously funny to me, but the masses found it to be "good" in a serious sense, and that is far from funny; it is practically terrifying. It is terrifying that Google, the WP, Doritos and a host of other giant 'Deep State' corporations are praised and honored and held in high esteem when these are the same corporations actively seeking to kill us. They kill us with the lies they tell, the wars they sell, and poisons they feed to us in their food (and household cleaners and pesticides, etc.). Ironically, Burger King was rated as an 'F' and the worst Superbowl ad by Kellogs this year, but not because their fast food is literally poisonous and not even fit for human consumption, but because of the way the ad was put together... If only BK had found a 'better' way to advertise their poison, then it could have been a great ad, you see!

This is the ideology behind this show, that an 'entertaining' ad is 'good', and a 'boring' or 'outdated' ad is 'bad'; completely irregardless of what it is being advertised exactly, and the actual honesty behind the ads themselves. No critiquing of how honest these ads are, because if there was, most would surely get 'F' ratings for deceptions and intentionally misleading the audience. (More Superbowl commercials can be seen here...)

Superbowl Sunday illustrates the consumerist mentality of the average American which is eating away at the fabric of society, the rampant materialism being foisted upon humanity by the global elite which has turned us into a nation of mindless, heartless debt slaves, which has for all intents and purposes already destroyed our society from within. But the serfs and the minions need their mindless entertainment to keep their focus off of the monstrous deeds of the empire, or the truly desperate state of society around them, or the mass awakening to all this madness which is currently taking place all around the world. And so there is Superbowl Sunday to do just that.

It is one of the greatest opiates of the masses, the entertainment and distraction, the gladiators fighting in the Colosseum keeping the masses distracted from the tyranny and oppression caused by the same empire which is hosting the game. Yes, and Superbowl Sunday is most certainly a symbol for what this society has come to truly stand for: Greed, and the empty materialism which it so easily breeds.

Now go back to being good little corporate slave - if you are one - and just keep working, buying, consuming and dying. The multiple corporations who paid over $5 million per 30 seconds worth of advertising space on Sunday are absolutely banking on it.