Can we eat the football? The Kyoto stadium does not number among those that housed the World Cup in Japan and South Corea.
When I say Diouf, mind races to the twenty-one year old light-footed centre forward, the Senegalese discovery who plays in France, and not to his namesake, the president of the Fao, a Senegalese himself.
Confusion then reigns sovereign if I say that the only thing in the world that everyone seems able to eat and wishes to do so is the football.
But it can all be traced back to the mosaic trick What is the mosaic trick?
I mention it every now and then in this context - it is the difficulty in fitting the pieces together to try and see the picture as a whole, being unused to the task and wishing to complete it. I think this picture is probably the wildest and most coercive deformation of reality suffered by information on reality itself.
But let us come to the point and the ball that awaits to be eaten. While I write, I still do not know who will be the winner of this exotic/Asian World Cup, most probably the first real “globalists” - they are moved by the wish of football rulers to extend the ball business’ market, since the traditional European and Latin-American markets seem to have dried up.
At the eve of the World Cup potential televiewers numbered about 40 billion.
The turnover is hard to calculate, but considering the organization, construction of stadiums, turnover from related side activities, tv rights, sponsors etc., it probably will exceed 10.000 million dollars. These numbers are the result of the more or less excited enthusiasm, which I would say is “acted” (I mean to say the tens of thousands of Japanese and Korean spectators in the stadium, who look like cartoons when they celebrate goals scored by others, just as if they were “Holly and Benjy” of themselves, wearing T-shirts of Italy, France, Germany etc.), in the entire planet of football fans, of those who show an interest in football only on this occasion.
So far so clear, let us say, as far as this piece of the mosaic goes.
But how do Kyoto and the Senegalese Jacques Diouf come into the picture?
And what about the Fao, the Food & Agricultural Organization, with its annual budget of “only” 1.200 million dollars, half of which is meant for the organization’s expenses and its 4000 employees and top executives?
In other words how does the Kyoto protocol on the climate, which the USA refused to sign two years ago, come into the picture? What has the World Cup got to do with the hole in the ozone layer, hence with the destruction of forests, the desertification of the soil and air pollution, with the population increase (6 billion human beings today, 7 billion in 2015, 8 billion in 2030 …) and in short with hunger in the world? And with the president of the Fao, who inconceivably, that is with opinions that were not supported by numbers (and probably clouded by his namesake, the prolific golescorer), declared a few months back that “ however the number of people who suffer from hunger in the world will be halved in 2030”, even though today fight against hunger verges on defeat?
This is the second piece in the picture.
Hence try to fit the first and second pieces together so as to focus on the picture of the future planet - football will be increasingly intercontinental, hunger in the world at large and especially in the third world will increase, numbers will soar high for football rulers while they will drop drastically for the hungry.
And would you say that these two pieces are not inter-related? What will the hungry eat - the televised football game? And I suppose the Earth’s ruling class, and our Italian one too, will obviously stand by and watch? Does football belong to the right wing or the left wing? And what about hunger?
Mull it over, oh folks, mull it over!