it must be zimms

throughout the world cup fever these are the thoughts i have

with the extensive labour that was required to improve the infrastructure, how much labour was exploitative? how many homes were destroyed to make way for beautiful scenery en route to the stadiums? how much food was rerouted to tourists instead, how much did the price of food rise for locals?

how many children have starved?

how much of the money earned has gone toward helping the impoverished?

how much of the history has been truly understood, as pointed out in prof z's class, there has been extensive effort to erase parts of the violent history, how many people have voted instead for the tours organised by citizens bent on preserving the integrity of their history?

waka waka, this time for africa; how much of the benefits reaped have been truly for the africans?

music and videography are powerful tools. as the shot pulled out from the stadium i saw the wooden shacks on barren land. there is a reason why the shots of people in the music video for which shakira sang are staged and in studios, why most of the natural shots are only of animals.

gotta get reading the fleff blogs again. let's rise above this revelry in game and understand the entirety of such global phenomena.