It is strictly my hot-take, or in my specific case, my considered and now long-chewed or ruminated upon opinion, that the average American in 2022 thinks in exactly the same limited and dull way as the average American sports writer now writes, or attempts to.
All slick, facile, brainless equivalencies and borrowed gibbets of dogma from the borg-mind or twittersphere, and of course ultimately and always from those at a higher pay grade (constantly confused with "their betters"). And whenever these cretins---your fellow citizens right now surrounding you and probably fondling their pocket super-computers that obviously do them no intellectual or humbling good---dare brave the use of a metaphor, it is a totally shitty or pissy and inadequate one. Just like the hacks writing endlessly about the infantilizing, crowd-wrangling Super-Bauble Institution of Sport. And this mildly condescending, crotchety, completely legitimate and responsible attitude-take of mine does indeed bear upon any given issue in our basic politics, as well as our national sturm and drang about nasty and intractable divisions between "us all," from lowly citizen to august politician hack, and also about the dread endless bat plague which i have found so few people qualified to talk intelligently on. These slow, dumbed-down citizens getting all their quixotic data and editorial opinion alike, from talking heads and equally idiotic officials, probably half of whom among the latter are simply lying.
It would have helped our national brain-damaged state of existential fog and imprisonment immeasurably, immeasurably, if we had to begin with understood that even those with Phd's, even those with long coats of white or black, could be totally corrupt, or just blinded by the engineered and top-down autocratic, almost feudal practice of University-degreed Specialization. The Cult of Credentials, which is nothing more, in the final and most dire, drastic analysis, than a system in which otherwise capable, thinking, autonomous human beings are violently warned at all times to stay in their lane, and punished for the rest of their lives and careers if they don't.
It's by this charade of Institutional logic that one can find a pro basketball player on the one hand who is to be universally respected and heeded when he toes the national-corporatist-globalist party line, and on the other a pro basketball player who totally disagrees with that lockstep thinking, but is to be ridiculed viciously for it. Again, Organized Sport is a Giant, Anti-Human Bauble used to mesmerize, infiltrate, and distract us, Just a Religion Devoted to stroking and stoking, and prodding and modding the Reptile Brain, but anyway.
And by the same degenerated and false logic, or anthropomorphic totem- or standard-waving, one can still to this day in wokest 2022 find engineers and architects who actually take themselves seriously while sneering at you for disagreeing with their fatuous and unsupportable opinion that an aero-plane can crash into a 110-story steel skyscraper and thereby bring it crashing down into its own small, dusty footprint. This feat of God-like destructiveness on the part of the itty bitty aero-plane, even when piloted by moslem terrist geniuses, is of course provably, physically impossible, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron and probably an asshole. It doesn't matter at all What sort of architect and engineer we're talking about, either, they All feel their opinions are better than yours and even irrefutable, if you're not a credentialed engineer or architect in current good standing. Logic and Honesty can't mean very much, ever, in this disgusting scenario. It is even in some ways how one gets a James Savile, OBE, or a David Epstein or a Robert Maxwell: because nobody is permitted to take nay-sayers and those with uncomfortable data or opinions, At All seriously. Until master says so, and typically after these mentioned, hogwashing, elite super-villains are Dead.
The world is currently a fucking laughingstock to itself, a massive, lunatic con-game driven by corruption and evil, and reinforced by the docile, cud-chewing stupidity of the masses. But particularly among those masses, of The Educated: the preening, self-satisfied, unintelligent educated folk, who could not pour piss from a boot if the directions were printed on the bottom, unless they first paid thousands of dollars for a university course instructing them in the history and philosophical purpose of boots.
