The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl... which is great and all because I became a Birds fan around week 6 this year.
I have never heard more E-A-G-L-E-S, fly-eagles-fly, f-brady chants in my life. In a city where sports are celebrated, athletes idolized, and fans have a penchant for crude and outlandish behavior there are few questions to why The Link has a court and a jail inside the stadium.
My questions are:
Where do we loose ourselves?
What does this mob mentality do to us as an individual?
Why do we crave destruction, feel an obligation to record all of it and celebrate in the destruction of a city we are so proud to celebrate?
This is beyond sports, its beyond a Super Bowl celebrations and parade festivities.
This is kids in fights, homeless people looking for help, the monetization of reality... people in their worst moments, this is "world star!!!!"
Why are we so removed from humanity that we can justify hatred, cruelty, and bigotry because of nationality, race, sexuality, identity.
How long can we stand by and watch destruction of City Hall, Broad Street, People falling 30 feet to pavement, people going hungry, kids not getting the education they need, single mothers not getting the services they need, human beings from other countries being labeled and discriminated against because we are use to "documenting at a distance" and are numb to the compassion and sympathy that being a person should require.
Just my thought on this one.