Very complex topic to think about, it's for me a fundamental question if mankind can survive in the long term or not. With the primitive animal like behaviour with all the irrational emotions which exists in everyone of us whether you are a simple worker or an academic we are always at risk to lose our existence and our freedom. Bread and circuses were always a valve for people to withstand the ordinary life of work, eat, sleep and an insurance for the ruling class to maintain their power. But i think for the long term such systems cannot survive because knowledge and education are growing constantly in all social classes thanks to the information age.

We're building a huge common brain, everybody is connected via internet with freedom of choice to learn every day. But the great beauty of all the possibilities, the freedom is not recognized by everybody or many people. Freedom of choice is a high value and i think too many people choose a low route just for satisfaction of simple needs bounded to helplessness and habits like Brian Tracy said, just to don't bear the responsibility which is often recognized as a burden not a chance for freedom for many. Too many don't question their lifes and so i think sports, head to head fights like in the colloseum remain a valve to many people who decided to live in slavery but i think also a game against boredom for pure joy for they who are ruling others.

It's burned-in our brains, in our evolution i think. It ignites animal instincts we can't release otherwise and if we were not using our huge brains to take control of ourselves we were all in bloody battles i think, we would release all the pressure of life within such primitive ape like behaviour and would follow our animal instincts. The entertainment in huge arenas or by just watchin TV is the valve for releasing pressure today like in the past. It protects our community from greater harm as the fringe groups do today. For they it's not enough for example to shout out loud in the football arena to the winning team, they need beating other people and using such events to follow their lowest instincts. If i see when hundreds of police officers, helicopters are necessary to control such events than i'm really concerned of our community, not just from the tax side which is bad enough. I live in a relatively small town and sometimes such events occur and i drive in the train with these violent people, observing their behaviour and ask myself what they are thinking if they drink beer after beer, how they achieve such mindset, what are the real drivers behind for each single human being to act like that?

Basically i can't say it's good or bad, i'm no judge for other people. I wrote in an article why i hate watchin TV but without a mainstream adoption of recognizing the great opportunities of freedom to choose another route we need bread and circuses and if i do that conscious just because i can and want and not as valve for pressure then it's also freedom of choice and a sign that we're still more like apes, myself enclosed and far away from a higher level of consciousness.

Each of us make decisions with his fuzzy logical thinking each day, driven by emotions. Even the most logical thinker or who thinks he is will decide based on a complex emotion. That's how we build by nature i think and that's also a reason why we have these huge circuses like the Superbowl because somebody or a group of people decided it would be great to have this megaevent and they are right people love that so much.. just a few thoughts from my experience.