Super Bowl LVII - Inflation And Decadence
The Super Bowl is America's celebration of football, beer, advertisements, halftime show, and spending lots of money to see it live. America's cultural decadence mirrors the Roman Empire.
The Super Bowl is America’s favorite circus. There was the Greek amphitheater. The Romans had the coliseum. Americans have the Super Bowl.
The first Super Bowl ticket costs $10, but after the ticket is adjusted for inflation would cost $90.21 today, according to GoBankingRates. Tickets, food, and beer continue to get more expensive each year after inflation-adjusted costs.
According to GameTime, the average price for a Super Bowl LVII seat ranges from $3,123 to $7,089. GoBankingRates places estimate the cost of a Super Bowl LVII ticket to be between $6,000 to $27,500
SeatGeek estimates the average resale price for Super Bowl LVII tickets to be $6,513.
Sports Are A Distraction
Sports are a distraction. Major sporting events like the Super Bowl LVII are considered a time to spend with friends and family. The Super Bowl is merely another corporate event that has become an American pastime, and it may have begun as an event for sports enthusiasts. Still, it has evolved into an occasion for big businesses to pay millions of dollars for a thirty-second ad spot, an event for celebrities and corporate executives to show off, and an excuse for the average person to watch the game at the bar or host people for a Super Bowl Party.
America’s Decadence
The Super Bowl is merely a sign of America’s decadence. While a good part of the American population does not have even $1,000 to cover an emergency and is having problems paying the bills due to inflation, the top half of the population can drop $6,000 to $27,500 to go to the Super Bowl. That price does not include the cost of travel, hotel, and buying food and drinks at the game.
Inflation continues to get worse, and everything continues to get more expensive in the United States. Yet, despite data pointing out otherwise, the United States remains revered as one of the best places to live. There are many cultural signs that the United States is a decaying country.
Cultural Signs Of Decay
Music
Mainstream music exemplifies America’s depravity. From music videos like Lil Nas X’s MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) to Nikki Minaj’s Stupid Hoe to Fergie M.I.L.F. $. The imagery used in the music videos is usually sexual. This further brings sex into the open. The lyrics are boring and uncreative. The music is mostly all the same type of electronic rap pop that sounds the same after listening to mainstream songs. The artists, lyrics, and music eventually all blend, with no one standing out as original.
You could point to other signs of cultural decay in other types of entertainment. The cultural mores have declined over the years and generations, and the same happened to past empires.
Homelessness
The major cities in America are decaying, with more people becoming homeless. This is even the case in smaller towns. There may be reasons for more people becoming homeless from drug use, housing crisis due to rent and home ownership becoming unaffordable, or people making it a lifestyle choice.
Government Waste
The federal government spends billions of dollars in pork barrel spending that go to politicians’ pet projects. This is also a way for politicians to launder money while they tax an ordinary person for receiving $601 in their PayPal account for working a gig job to make extra income.
Not Enforcing Immigration Laws
Anyone can cross the borders. A border wall will not help this problem. Immigration laws not being enforced is the problem. The law is not being enforced. The legal path to becoming an American citizen is mocked. Politicians and the government have no interest in enforcing the legal pathway to citizenship because there are more voters. It will only continue since the United States is projected to become a white minority nation by 2045.
Average Person Unable To Keep Up
The average person is having difficulty keeping up due to the debasement of the currency and rising inflation. The dollar has lost 97% of its value over the last fifty years. That means the dollar today buys 97% less stuff than it used to. Inflation is another problem. The Consumer Price Index for January was 6.5% does not match the reality of the ordinary person who goes to the grocery store, buys gas for their car, or needs to pay their energy bills. The real inflation rate is estimated to be closer to 17.15%.
While the infographic may be two years old now, it illustrates that the prices of everything have drastically risen. The prices vary from item to item but are more than what The Federal Reserve says the inflation rate is.
Mirrors The Roman Empire
Foreign Policy writes in an article called The United States of America Is Decadent and Depraved:
In The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon luridly evokes the Rome of 408 A.D., when the armies of the Goths prepared to descend upon the city. The marks of imperial decadence appeared not only in grotesque displays of public opulence and waste, but also in the collapse of faith in reason and science.
Doug Casey of International Man explains in America’s Late-stage Decadence:
The old political structure had completely collapsed. Native Romans were leaving the Empire, going to barbarian lands, to avoid onerous taxation. The currency was worthless. The economy was in a shambles. The military structure had completely collapsed. None of the soldiers were Italians; they were all barbarians hired as mercenaries. Likewise, here in the US, few Americans in the diminishing middle class want to join the military. The city of Rome itself was sacked in 410 AD and it never really recovered… The decadence we see all around us is arising from every source. Cultural, economic, and political. Cultural decline is the most basic area. Massive immigration of people with different cultures, languages, and religions guarantee it. Especially if they’re coming because of free benefits. Many actually despise traditional American culture, as well as holding the current culture in contempt.
10 Signs Of A Collapsing Empire
Inversion of reality
Nothing makes sense. What is probably true is called “disinformation,” “misinformation,” or fact-checked as false.
People accept what they are told by “leaders,” “experts,” and the mainstream media even when it does not match reality.
Wear masks, get multiple injections for a “public health crisis,” go into debt for a college degree only to work multiple gig jobs, and that inflation is “transitory.”
People believe that the enemy is in some far-off foreign country where the enemies of the people control the monetary system, walk the halls of D.C., government agencies, the education system, the justice system, and the entertainment you consume.
Sexuality out in the open
OnlyFans
Simping
Sex education for children when they are young is being taught in schools.
Indoctrinating kids that there can be more than two sexes while taking them to drag queen storytime.
Gambling
Sports
Politics
Casinos
Currency debasement
Inflation
The dollar has lost 97% of its value over the last fifty-year period.
Ordinary people have difficulty getting by and surviving.
People are required to work multiple part-time jobs to make ends meet.
A fake currency that can be printed leads to a flawed social order.
Americans’ normalcy bias is that the United States dollar can always be the world’s reserve currency.
It is mathematically impossible to pay off the nation’s debt.
Since the debt can never be paid off, taxes have no purpose besides controlling and taking away money from the population.
Runaway corruption that the population accepts
Politicians go on vacations or go to expensive restaurants while the people are told to lock down.
Insider trading is legal for politicians (i.e., Nancy Pelosi, Crenshaw, etc.)
Sam Bankman-Fried because FTX donated to both political parties.
Bread and circuses
Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
Sports
Movies
Television
Social media
Laws not enforced
Police go after people not masking on the beach
Immigration laws need to be enforced.
Government always creates more laws, making things more complicated for small to medium-sized businesses and everyday people to deal with while benefiting the tax, lawyer, and political classes.
Citizens must “test” and be “vaccinated,” but illegal immigrants coming over do not.
Government
Disincentivizing people to work through social and welfare programs.
This is the bread that goes along with the bread and circuses.
Takes over the majority of the economy.
It kills off small and medium-sized businesses with lockdowns, benefiting large companies that donate to the government.
The CDC violated private property rights during the “pandemic” with the eviction moratorium.
Military
The military has lowered standards due to a recruiting crisis.
The United States creates enemies around the world by being the World Police.
The United States destabilizes nations and uses the military to take another nation’s resources.
Decaying social order
Loss of mutual respect for people
Unable to keep a conversation or look people in the eye
Loss of basic etiquette
Men and women are increasingly unable to interact and talk to each other.
The more laws and regulations the state creates, the more society decays because people become too worried about being imprisoned, labeled for thinking wrong, and viewed as a political enemy rather than wanting to follow basic social mores like being polite.
This list could go on, but you probably get the idea. Politics does not have a solution because both parties' politicians are doing the same corrupt things. America is rotting from the core, and the people in power want you to believe that the enemy is foreign: Russia and China.
Super Bowl LVII is a red flag of the significant symptoms that the United States is a decadent and declining empire. The Super Bowl is just America’s favorite circus for entertainment-addicted Americans.
Rihanna will be performing the halftime show for Super Bowl LVII.
'Cause I may be bad but I'm perfectly good at it
There's sex in the air I don't care, I love the smell of it
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But chains and whips excite me
Na na na, come on, come on, come on, I like it, like it
Come on, come on, come on, I like it, like it
Now come on, come on, come on, I like it, like it
Come on, come on, come on, I like it, like it
S S S and M M M
S S S and M M M
We’re not for everyone.