I'm in a +50 Harris neighborhood btw, they were blasting fireworks and honking their cars, all night long... I not sure how they can just be so happy... 🤷♂️
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The NFL and superbowl certainly still plays its role well. Colosseum bread and circus still very much works. Distract, pacify, forget, worry about this other thing that has perceptive stakes you could identify with and back and feel the illusory risk of none real consequences if you align with one of the teams. Lost the political one with the real actual consequences that have more or less destroyed the country you grew up in possibly forever? Maybe a sports victory will help placate you, feel the rush of this victory ignore how you and your family in fact lost it all.
Celebrating your sports team win isn't any less productive than doom scrolling
"Doomscrolling" is infinitely more productive. At least then you're staying up to date and getting information that actually matters about the place you live and the planet you're on. Ignoring it and calling it "Doomscrolling" is exactly how they're hoping you'll react. But whatever you want to do dude if you think memorizing facts about our society and planet is less productive than knowing the history or stats of some sports team where they trade players regularly no amount of conversation will convince you.
If you think getting excited for a week about something fun that happened is the problem then idk what to say