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Old 09-30-2013, 03:21 AM   #134
Prestidigitweeze
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Why not contrary meaning?
Why not power not powerlessness?
Because the powerful run this. By living our lives, we're already their Roman arena.

If the powerless didn't need the misdirect of vicarious catharsis, then the public Roman arena would never have existed. In one sense, internet brand wars are a virtual Death Race 2000 in which consumers participate, just as hating celebs is the metaphorical equivalent of feeding Christians to lions: Haters want to be lions. In another sense, it's just a variation on playing the dozens. The art of the insult.

The only relatively positive thing about any of it is the replacement of literal human blood with the metaphorical kind. But if we weren't calling for one another's blood at all, we might be in a better position to understand the true source of our anger.

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