Every time I see a new mega stadium built anywhere —

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— I cringe. Can’t help but think of Roman bread-and-circuses mass mind controlled gladiator “games” that keep rich sheeple entert(r)ained while enriching banks and engineering/ construction companies, not to mention raping our Mother Earth of her finite and ever-receding resources —

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— and displacing poor people who used to live there.

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So of course, huge police presence is required to stave off the disregarded masses —

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And meanwhile, old venues crumble and fade away.

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