MENTAL HEALTH AND MIDDLEMEN
For those who don’t remember the Former Soviet Union, please know it was rife with poor mental health, alcoholism, and drug abuse.
The control and totalitarian character of communism may have been unhealthy, in which attention and care were bestowed upon hierarchy with their prevailing hubris of Supremacy. This is commensurate with the complimentary ideals of capitalism with similar outcome within the American local community members.
The hierarchical trick of naming capitalism a type of democracy has blinded so many US local community members of their plight of depression; at the same time hierarchical capitalists are exploiting US local community members to so-called treat the mental health problems caused by Establishment hubris.
Some people see the insinuation of institutional overlay of control by capitalistic Establishment as deflection of the attention of otherwise intelligent Americans into a nonsensical preoccupation with matters that are meaningless; but make money for middlemen. Should this be considered?
And when determining matters of import to We The People, should we consider human rights and natural rights before greed? The matter of whether taxpayer money should go to middlemen floating the dream of untold local-community riches to local communities, but only after middlemen have taken the cream off the top, be discussed?
Should the health and well-being be preliminary in our priorities? When our priorities are not addressed, could this be a reason for growing depression and poor mental health.
In other words capitalism functions like communism. Both are unhealthy.
Sports Fan Depression Is Real: How to Process Your Team’s Loss | Thriveworks
The term “sports fan depression” is certainly real—it’s used informally to describe the emotional reactions and feelings of intense sadness or disappointment that some sports enthusiasts experience when their favorite team doesn’t perform well or loses a game. However, it’s important to clarify that while these emotions can be genuinely distressing and have a significant impact on an individual’s mood and well-being, they don’t necessarily meet the clinical criteria for a recognized mental health disorder.
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How your taxes subsidize the Super Bowl — and how that might change– That’s because the payments from bonds that municipalities sell to pay for stadium construction aren’t subject to federal income taxes. The rationale – that the federal government shouldn’t (indirectly) tax local governments – makes sense when funding necessary infrastructure that’s widely used by the public. But it’s hard to justify the same tax privilege for private enterprise.—end of taxbreak info–
The above is one example of the unbelievable transfer of wealth from local communities to big-money campaign donors. Your research can uncover so many more. I’m not the spokesperson for local communities. But yesterday a Las Vegas school teachers suggested that the cost of their Super Bowl Stadium doesn’t justify the neglect of their school children: The same is FACTual for the Mirabito Stadium upgrades and Southern Tier, NY, school children. Before the income from a sports Stadium upgrade is recouped, today’s children will be on medicare and future children will be bemoaning the cost of keeping alive, their seniors.
As we watch ongoing “mental health violence” among aggressive indignant lawmakers, police, and bureaucrats, big-money campaign donations are still thrown among these characters like meat at a dog fight.
Also, stadium owners are excellent campaign donors, along with casino owners—-
– “Baseball isn’t just America’s favorite pastime – it’s a sport completely ingrained in the history of our great state,” said Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan. “Today, I am proud to announce that we are continuing this tradition through a multi-million dollar investment and improvements at NYSEG Stadium, home of the Binghamton Rumble Ponies. I want to thank Senator Fred Akshar for his unwavering commitment to keeping Double-A baseball in Binghamton, where it will continue to fuel the local economy and ensure that our great pastime will be enjoyed in the Southern Tier for many generations to come.”
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FACTually, several local residents are baseball fans, some rabidly so. FACTually, that which is vibrant and thriving in the Southern Tier of NYS seems to be the arts culture. Local community members seem to be quite involved. Also, the dining opportunities are ever-growing and exuberantly unfolding.
But who doesn’t love a baseball stadium hot dog? Telling is the penchant of so-defined school days at the Mirabito Stadium in which school children are shipped wholesale into the facility for show? Whatever works, one supposes.
Meanwhile, the traditionally strong-man approach of hierarchy continues. Then-Deputy Akshar jumped into the NYS Senate race, endorsed by Then-Sheriff Harder, winning the position of lawmaker in order to put in place the laws of his choice before jumping back into the race for Broome County, NY Sheriff upon retirement of Sheriff Akshar, and then Sheriff Akshar endorsed his crony for DA who won the position eventually, reinforcing the strong-man bulwark, and then endorsed for NYS Senate his choice while current NYS Senator Leah Webb appears to be doing an excellent but non-strong-man job of leadership.
But that’s just the perception of me. Research for yourself and be amazed. But if nothing else, think before voting
A book called Once And Future Myths by Phil Cousineau includes the following—-Character, energy, heart, love, and one other vital ingredient. Toynbee emphasizes it when he writes, “What is essential is what that the inhabitants of the city should be a genuine community in fact,: T. S. Eliot literally brings home the point, when he asks, in his long poem, “The Rock,” what kind of life is it that we have in modern cities if it is dispersed on ribbon roads” instead of spent together?
When the stranger says, “What is the meaning of this city?”
Do you huddle close together because you love each other?
What will be your answer “We all dwell together
to make oney fro each other?” or “This is community?”–end of book ingo–
In the Southern Tier of NYS, the heart and soul were torn out of humanity and neighborhood 50 years ago in the name of urban renewal and progress. We have a phenomenal ribbon road that transports trafficking, drugs, and criminal activity. Strong-man characters have better stories than actions.
A semblance of integrity seems growing by the efforts of everyday people. One hopes it continues.