The greatest spectacle on our planet,
Its greatest event, is not the football World Cup,
But the act of self-destruction we are engaged in:
The climate crisis, the extinction of species,
The damage inflicted by our industry and economy,
Inequality, the pillaging of nature,
And the slow, systematic destruction of our world.
And yet, whenever I open any news outlet,
From the BBC to The Guardian, all the way to The New York Times,
Everywhere I look, they are publishing thousands
of articles and photographs about football,
Endlessly idiotic celebrity stories, recipes,
Inane images - and almost nothing about reality.
The press is one of the driving forces of this age of stupidity.
It is hard to believe that we really are this absurd.
It is hard to accept that this age is truly so morally bankrupt,
And it is profoundly sad that I have to live here,
In this fucked-up, primitive civilisation,
Among eager, cheerful, paid-to-smile fools.
This world is horrifying.
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