Call it Capitalism but sure tastes like Communism

You know that addicting feeling you get participating in soccer games? The one where while playing it seems you are in a natural healthy state of euphoria? Not everyone is equal but everyone’s contribution is equally important. The best players try to score, the hard workers in the middle help them and the brutes at the back contribute by destroying the other teams creators. It’s a team. A unit. Everyone working for each other, doing what they do best and not worrying that it isn’t the same as the other guy. Some small and quick some slow but tall and good in the air.

The best soccer teams in the history of this great activity were always the diverse teams. The players had differing strengths. Their weaknesses hidden by the contributions of their teammates. Everyone supported and sacrificed for one another.

I am happy soccer is taking this last frontier US of A by storm. Everyone is playing, David Beckham is here signing autographs and smiling for pictures.

The thing that worries me however about this soccer craze over taking the lower and middle class in the United States of America is whether or not we are craving the euphoria of an interactive soccer match as an escape from the fact that we have lost our real utopia. It used to be that in the USA you could be who you are and not feel bad. You could use your strengths to make a living and all in all by doing what you did you were helping the team – the country. Other communist third world countries played soccer because that is where they found 90 minutes of escape into a pretend world of equality and opportunity.

Well whatever has gone down in the last 10 years here (a result of the last 60 years here) has forced us as citizens to search out the sport of soccer to get that daily feeling we used to get just by living here.

This is not good.

I would rather 22 hours and 30 min a day of euphoria in a free classless society and 90 minutes of struggle, rather than the other way around, but this is the life we are living at the moment. We repeatedly hear how great capitalism is but as things stand if you don’t live in the capital you don’t get to live.

I am not blaming soccer. We should continue to use it as a vehicle to teach our young how life is meant to be, how to function in a community, sacrifice for another, work for a goal, and carry every lesson learned out into a similar reality of life.

We just need to be every bit as aggressive in regaining our liberty here in America as we are in screaming at the ref when he makes a call that is unfair in a game that after all, really doesn’t matter.