The over indulgence in our entertainment negatively affects how we view & treat each other.

Sorry for taking the full 3 days to respond- life was getting in the way. Here I am! Opening Statement: What will be the breaking point for our own overindulgence? Where does it end? One day, this empire of overfed, over-shopped, over-texted, over-informed, over-entertained, and over-amused will collapse under it's own weight. Until then, there are those who stand by & accept it as the status quo. Blinded in their own selfish & shady values blurring the lines of truth & reality. "Its just entertainment?!" http://www.youtube.com... Exhibit A: A LeBron fan being ejected for wearing his jersey to a Cleveland Indians Baseball game. It starts off with a fan & I'm assuming his date (girl) being escorted out by 2 security officers. Lets look at the circumstances in its context: Here is a fan of LeBron wearing his jersey at a Cleveland BASEBALL game & being ejected for that. The majority are taking their personal feelings & turning it into a vendetta AGAINST LEBRON, while taking it out on his fan who's the minority-- AT A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EVENT! Although it is accepted as the status quo of how things will always be!? Calling HIM (the fan) "Disrespectful?!" for having the nerve to wear his jersey at a Cleveland entertainment event! So in result, they didn't like the shirt he was wearing so they decided to kick him out! Now kiddies, what's that spell? C-E-N-S-O-R-S-H-I-P!! Yay!!! The argument here is that LeBron emancipated himself from the city of Cleveland when he decided to "Take his talents to South Beach" on his 1 hour ESPN special "The Decision." I can understand how fans felt about that but we are all someone's sons & daughters or parents with their own. We all grow up & make our own decisions BUT we can't control what our loved ones or favourite athletes will do with their lives!? The same rules apply to our entertainers, even if you pay their salaries to supply themselves with food, clothes, shelter & LOVE! We all have to make decisions that makes sense for us. LeBron made his decision & in such a disgraceful way that it was like pouring salt on the wound. They wanted him to stay & win a championship that he promised. Then he changed his mind & made a decision he thought was best for him. We are allowed to change our minds & make decisions for ourselves & there are always going to be critics of it. Though, it was the way he did it that seems to resonate & the fuel that burned his jersey. The status quo with the entertainers is that they are the "pie in the face" people (the ridicule & scrutiny comes with the job description) & because they help pay their salaries by buying tickets, merchandise, or watch the games on television, that they own a piece of them. They self righteously believe they are meant to hold ONLY the entertainers accountable for their actions- even when they paraded around town & burning his jersey in protest like a bunch of Vietnam veterans, burning the American flag in a righteous cause & disgracing themselves by acting in such a way. The overindulgent hold entertainment on a higher pedestal than they should THEMSELVES. What kind of example are you setting by acting this way, in front of your children who look up to you? Shouldn't all individuals be allowed to do whatever he wants as long as it doesn't impede on someone elses happiness? The answer to that is: YES! Though the fans, media & politicians [Gov' of Ohio proclaiming The Dallas Mavericks honorary citizens, for defeating their "EVIL SON" LeBron James (not the Miami Heat) in the NBA Finals] have proven, they don't want that to be the case cause entertainment is filled with politics & predigest. To me, where it goes too far & where CON & I differentiate/separate, is that CON accepts censoring the things in society that you think, in terms of ideas or the exchange of ideas (the jersey is a symbol of freedom of speech), that doesn't mesh well with your own morals & ethics. I want to live in a society where people can voice & say unpopular opinions & ideas or wear clothes you may find "offensive" because the result of that will be a society that grows & matures. By censoring that fans right to freely express himself & impede on his happiness (because you don't like the name on the back of his jersey), you show ignorance by only accepting whats right for you. As you can see the selfish & corrupted behaviour of how we view & treat each other is a result of this human construct we have built in this 'overindulgent' ideology of entertainment. http://www.youtube.com... Exhibit B: The NHL Finals riots in Vancity I can make the case that if LeBron beat the Dallas Mavericks to claim his first championship away from Cleveland- Fans there would have reacted the same way Vancouver fans did. This is a prime example of how people's overindulgence in their entertainment, can blur the lines of reality & truth in their actions. If you look at it from a stand point without knowing what the riot was about, you could have sworn the cities inhabitants rights were revoked without a warning. Like on April 29, 1992, when a jury acquitted four white Los Angeles Police Department officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King following a high-speed pursuit. Thousands of people in the Los Angeles area rioted over the six days following the verdict. This goes to show that there are worst things that happen in the world that gets swept under the rug & continues to go unnoticed while the ignorance of the self indulgent are more than happy to blissfully ignore it. Losing all composure in themselves because they've overindulged in their entertainment. Thus affecting how everyone viewed the city of Vancouver because of the actions of some ignorant angry fans. Thankfully, a positive has come from all that: http://www.vancitybuzz.com... ...but how far does it have go to recognize overindulgence in anything can make you an addict? When you become addicted, you ignore all sense of right & wrong to get a fix by stepping on whoever may get in the way as long as it pertains only to your interests! In closing of my opening statement, I'd like to show this video. http://www.youtube.com... Exhibit C: "We're in A Lot of Trouble!" Howard Beale in the "Network" explains how technology has surpassed humanity & because of our overindulgence in entertainment is preventing us from not seeing the truth in reality. For the powers that be, paint illusions over our eyes to protect their interests & we breath in their fairytales of how things should be, instead of what is. Living in a human construct built on an illusion to keep you busy from noticing that there's something wrong with it! This all effects how we are treated & viewed by the elites who control what they want us to know by using entertainment as "tools" of spreading their propaganda on their order of things as they are TODAY. As a result, Exhibit A & B mirrors our natural order of things by censoring the fan in X:A & the Vancity riots in X:B demonstrates that the level of ignorance in the overindulgence of entertainment, can impact all of us. Playing into the hands of what the powers that be want us to believe is right & wrong. Completely losing face with reality & the truth of whats happening in front of them. No longer thinking in terms of people's & nations but "ME". Living under a security blanket of liberties & rights, when governments have proven time & time again, they contract & expand as it wants to by accommodating these changes to you liberties. The same goes for this superiority complex when finding ways to only hold entertainers accountable & placing them on pedestals so you can chop them down whenever you deem it necessary as long as it pertains to your interests. http://www.youtube.com... We are what we do, not what we say.